Bostrychia Montagne, 1842, nom. et typ. cons.

Holotype species: Bostrychia scorpioides (Hudson) Montagne

Original publication and holotype designation: Montagne, J.F.C. (1842). Algae. In: Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l'Ile de Cuba. Botanique-plantes cellulaires. (De La Sagra, R. Eds), pp. 1-104. Paris:

Description: Thallus dorsiventral, with prostrate and erect indeterminate axes bearing simple or branched determinate laterals usually at regular intervals; apices occasionally straight, but usually curved to circinate. Attachment by rhizoidal haptera terminal on special branches ('cladohaptera') or clustered on peripheral cells ('peripherohaptera'). Axes with 4–9 pericentral cells, each dividing transversely into 2 tiers, corticate or not. Branching exogenous, rarely endogenous. Trichoblasts absent. Spermatangia superficial on corticated polysiphonous determinate laterals with or without a sterile tip. Procarps 1–4 per segment on polysiphonous determinate branches, each procarp with a single sterile group and a (3–) 4- celled carpogonial branch. Carposporophyte with a short branched gonimoblast bearing clavate terminal carposporangia. Cystocarps subterminal, ovoid to subspherical; pericarp with 6–14 longitudinal filaments, corticated. Tetrasporangia tetrahedrally divided, whorled, borne in stichidia on determinate laterals, up to 25 segments long; fertile segments with 4 or 5 pericentral cells and tetrasporangia, each protected by 2 or 3 cover cells that are often subdivided [after Womersley (2003: 362)].

Information contributed by: J.M. Huisman (2018).. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-04-08 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.

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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. 08 April 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 21 November 2024