Dumontia J.V.Lamouroux, 1813
Lectotype species: Dumontia incrassata (O.F.Müller) J.V.Lamouroux
Currently accepted name for the type species: Dumontia contorta (S.G.Gmelin) Ruprecht
Original publication: Lamouroux, J.V.F. (1813). Essai sur les genres de la famille des Thalassiophytes non articulées. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 20: 21-47, 115-139, 267-293, plates 7-13.
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: Cylindrical to complanate, branched to one (rarely two) orders, or spathulate-oblanceolate and unbranched. Gelato-cartilaginous. Medulla multiaxial, filamentous, mostly empty. Branches, when present, with a single axial filament. Cortex of progressively smaller, nearly spherical cells. Rhizoids rare. Cuticle poorly developed. Cells uninucleate. Pit plugs lacking cap layers. Dioecious. Carpogonium terminating a usually unbranched, adventitious filament; connecting filaments issuing from fusion process, contacting a succession of differentiated auxiliary cells in separate, adventitious filaments. Usually three gonimoblast initials arising from remnant of connecting filament attached to auxiliary cell. Cystocarp embedded, relatively few-celled (ca 24). All cells maturing into carposporangia. Spermatangia superficial, cut off by oblique walls. Tetrasporophyte isomorphic. Tetrasporangia large, cruciate, attached basally or subbasally to inner cortical cells.
Information contributed by: S.C. Lindstrom. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2017-01-23 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.
Comments: Upright thallus initiation from basal crust initials requiring short photoperiod and low temperature. (Rietema, 1982; Rietema and Breeman, 1982; Rietema and Klein, 1981). Dumontia contorta has been used in northern Japan in making an adhesive (Tokida, 1954). A spring (-summer) ephemeral of the cool temperate waters of the northern hemisphere: Korea, Japan, USSR, Alaska, North Atlantic (eastern Canada and US, Iceland, Europe).
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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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