Callophyllis Kützing, 1843
Lectotype species: Callophyllis variegata (Bory) Kützing
Original publication: Kützing, F.T. (1843). Phycologia generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange. Mit 80 farbig gedruckten Tafeln, gezeichnet und gravirt vom Verfasser. pp. [part 1]: [i]-xxxii, [1]-142, [part 2:] 143-458, 1, err.], pls 1-80. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus.
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: Erect, flat, soft-membranous to cartilaginous, usually flabellately, laciniately or more or less pinnately branched in one plane. Stipe short or absent. Holdfast discoid. Margin smooth, ruffled, or with protuberances. Medulla of large, isodiametric cells surrounded by chains of small cells. Cortex relatively thick, of isodiametric cells, progressively smaller toward cuticle. Outermost cells uninucleate; other cells multinucleate. Dioecious, where known. One to several 3-celled carpogonial branches borne on a supporting cell that can bear several lobed subsidiary cells and that serves as the auxiliary cell after fertilization. Fusion cell formed from subsidiary cell, supporting cell and first cell of carpogonial branche(es) after fertilization, and gonimoblast filaments initiated directly from fusion cell. Carposporangia produced in clusters or chains from gonimoblast. Cystocarps slightly to distinctly protuberant. Pericarp and carpostome present. Spermatangia superficial. Tetrasporophyte isomorphic. Tetrasporangia cruciate, scattered in cortex. Revised description (Clarkston & Saunders 2013: 33).
Information contributed by: S.C. Lindstrom. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2019-01-05 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: Kylin, H. (1956). Die Gattungen der Rhodophyceen. pp. i-xv, 1-673, 458 figs. Lund: C.W.K. Gleerups.
Comments: Mostly subtidal. Widely distributed, primarily in temperate seas, but also known from arctic/antarctic and tropical/subtropical waters.
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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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