Acanthophora J.V.Lamouroux, 1813
Lectotype species: Acanthophora thierryi J.V.Lamouroux
Currently accepted name for the type species: Acanthophora spicifera (M.Vahl) Børgesen
Original publication: Lamouroux, J.V.F. (1813). Essai sur les genres de la famille des Thalassiophytes non articulées. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 20: 21-47, 115-139, 267-293, plates 7-13.
Request PDFType designated in: Schmitz, F. (1889). Systematische Übersicht der bisher bekannten Gattungen der Florideen. Flora oder Allgemeine botanische Zeitung 72: 435-456, pl. XXI.
Description: Thallus erect, occasionally decumbent, arising from a discoid stoloniferous or rhizomatous prostrate system. Axes terete (in N.W.A.); branching alternate, irregular or spiral, all branches with short spirally arranged spines; apices projecting or in shallow pits, with a few branched trichoblasts. Structure uniaxial, with 5 pericentral cells per segment, surrounded by a pseudoparenchymatous medulla and cortex. Spermatangia on stalked plate-like trichoblasts. Cystocarps sessile, each subtended by spine-like branchlets. Tetrasporangia in short lateral spinose branchlets (becoming stichidial in some species), several per segment.
Information contributed by: J.M. Huisman (2018).. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2018-10-08 by M.D. Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
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: The spines on the surface of Acanthophora thalli originate on the abaxial side of a basal cell of a trichoblast according to Kraft (1979). Gordon-Mills and Womersley (1987), however, pointed out that the spine "appears to develop directly from the whole trichoblast which is highly modified. In this case the spines are directly comparable to the pointed spurs at the base of the cystocarp of Chondria spp. that also develop from the modified fertile trichoblast."
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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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