Halymenia C.Agardh, 1817, nom. cons.
Lectotype species: Halymenia floresii (Clemente) C.Agardh
Original publication: Agardh, C.A. (1817). Synopsis algarum Scandinaviae, adjecta dispositione universali algarum. pp. [i]-xl, [1]-135. Lundae [Lund]: Ex officina Berlingiana.
Request PDFType designated in: Schmitz, F. (1889). Systematische Übersicht der bisher bekannten Gattungen der Florideen. Flora oder Allgemeine botanische Zeitung 72: 435-456, pl. XXI.
Description: Thallus erect, blade-like, with a discoid holdfast, with or without a short stipe. Blades branched or not. Structure multiaxial, with a medulla of sparse, loosely interwoven, periclinally directed filaments, as well as anticlinal filaments that traverse the medulla; refractive or ganglionic cells usually present. Cortex of dichotomously divided filaments, occasionally forming a loose pseudoparenchyma. Spermatangia arising from outer cortical cells. Carpogonal branches and auxiliary cell branches in spatially separate ampullae. Cystocarps immersed, with a lax filamentous pericarp. Tetrasporangia formed in the outer cortex, cruciately or decussately divided. Emended by Rodríguez-Prieto & S.-M. Lin in Rodríguez-Prieto et al., 2018: 534.
Information contributed by: J. Huisman & O. De Clerck (2018).. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-02-22 by M.D. Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Schneider, C.W. & Wynne, M.J. (2007). A synoptic review of the classification of red algal genera a half a century after Kylin's "Die Gattungen der Rhodophyceen". Botanica Marina 50: 197-249.
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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 22 February 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 November 2024
