Griffithsia C.Agardh, 1817, nom. cons.
Holotype species: Griffithsia corallina C.Agardh
Currently accepted name for the type species: Griffithsia corallinoides (Linnaeus) Trevisan
Original publication and holotype designation: Agardh, C.A. (1817). Synopsis algarum Scandinaviae, adjecta dispositione universali algarum. pp. [i]-xl, [1]-135. Lundae [Lund]: Ex officina Berlingiana.
Request PDFDescription: Thallus filamentous, ecorticate or with rhizoidal cortication below, erect or occasionally decumbent, generally pseudodichotomously branched, typically with large subspherical ellipsoidal or cylindrical cells. Branched trichoblasts sometimes present. Spermatangia in divided fascicles, with or without involucral cells. Procarps subapical on short fertile axes. Carposporophytes lateral to the junctions of axial cells, generally displacing the axis slightly, with an involucre of 2 (–3)-celled filaments. Tetrasporangia tetrahedrally divided, pedicellate, borne in clusters in the junctions of axial cells or terminally, with or without an involucre.
Information contributed by: Huisman (2018). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-04-14 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. 14 April 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 November 2024
