Symphyocladia Falkenberg, 1897

Holotype species: Symphyocladia marchantioides (Harvey) Falkenberg

Original publication and holotype designation: Schmitz, F. & Falkenberg, P. (1897). Rhodomelaceae. In: Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien nebst ihren Gattungen und wichtigeren Arten insbesondere den Nutzpflanzen unter Mitwirkung zahlreicher hervorragender Fachgelehrten, Teil 1, Abteilung 2. (Engler, A. & Prantl, K. Eds), pp. 421-480. Leipzig: verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.

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Description: Thalli polysiphonous, bilaterally compressed and with some branches or parts of branches congenitally fused; both upright and prostrate systems, the erect system sometimes mostly decumbent and attaching to substratum by rhizoids cut off from pericentral cells on lower side, each forming multicellular thigmotactic plates. 6-8 pericentral cells, some species with cortication, especially on center of thallus developing indistinct midrib or veins. Deciduous, colorless trichoblasts are present on gametophytes, in a 1/2 spiral; usually absent on sporophytes. Procarps developing at tips of marginal spines, the apices of congenitally fused branches; 1 cystocarp per branch tip. Male capitula cylindrical, developing in place of trichoblasts on tips of branchlets. Tetrasporangia in straight rows, 1 per segment, in marginal regions of fused branches or in teeth from branch edges.

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.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Savoie, A.M. & Saunders, G.W. (2016). A molecular phylogenetic and DNA barcode assessment of the tribe Pterosiphonieae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) emphasizing the Northeast Pacific. Botany 94: 917-939, 8 figs.

Comments: Lower littoral to subtidal, Japan, China, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa the Azores Islands. There are no absolute characters that separate Symphyocladia from Pterosiphonia (Ardré 1973/74) and the two genera may eventually be combined.

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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