Odonthalia Lyngbye, 1819, nom. cons.

Holotype species: Odonthalia dentata (Linnaeus) Lyngbye

Original publication and holotype designation: Lyngbye, H.C. (1819). Tentamen hydrophytologiae danicae continens omnia hydrophyta cryptogama Daniae, Holsatiae, Faeroae, Islandiae, Groenlandiae hucusque cognita, systematice disposita, descripta et iconibus illustrata, adjectis simul speciebus norvegicis. pp. [i]-xxxii, [1]-248, 70 pls. Hafniae [Copenhagen]: typis Schultzianis, in commissis Librariae Gyldendaliae.

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Description: Compressed to flat upright thalli, several attached by a discoid holdfast; polysiphonous with distichous, alternate branches. Branching exogenous, up to 6th order; 1st order branches usually indeterminate, highest orders and a some intermixed with other orders determinate. Adventitious branches formed on axes and in axils of branchlets in most species. Proximal parts of axes, especially adventitious ones, may be cylindrical; axes in some species visible as a midrib; congenital fusion of branch and axis tissue in some species; thalli up to 35 cm long, ~4.5 mm broad. Pericentral cells 6, dividing transversely into tiers, distal cell in series attached to axial cell. Sporelings upright, producing 1st order branches in an alternate-distichous manner. Cystocarps spheroid, ovoid or urceolate, sometimes with a spur-like outgrowth; located distally on unmodified branches in corymbose or racemose arrangements. Spermatangia in sori covering distal parts of determinate branches. Tetrasporangial branchlets distally located on unmodified branchlets; sometimes in corymbose to racemose aggregates and tetrasporangia extending into axes of pinnate branchlets.

Information contributed by: R.E. Norris. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2017-01-26 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: On northern Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic Ocean shores, littoral to sublittoral.

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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. 26 January 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 21 November 2024