Hydrolithon (Foslie) Foslie, 1909
Lectotype species: Hydrolithon reinboldii (Weber Bosse & Foslie) Foslie
Original publication: Foslie, M. (1909). Algologiske notiser VI. Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter 1909(2): 1-63.
Request PDFType designated in: Mason, L.R. (1953). The crustaceous coralline algae of the Pacific coast of the United States, Canada and Alaska. University of California Publications in Botany 26(4): 313-389, Plates 27-46. [in English]
Description: Thallus attached to the substratum or as rhodoliths, encrusting, layered, lumpy or warty, non-geniculate. Thallus dimerous in construction; medulla not a palisade. Cortex with trichocytes of various shapes and frequency. Cortical filaments terminated externally by 1, rarely 2 epithallial cells. Sporangial conceptacles with bisporangia or zonate tetrasporangia.
Information contributed by: R.A. Townsend & J.M. Huisman (2018).. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-08-30 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 neuter.
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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