Rodriguezella F.Schmitz, 1895

Lectotype species: Rodriguezella bornetii (J.J.Rodríguez y Femenías) F.Schmitz

Original publication: Rodríguez y Femenías, J.J. (1895). Datos algologicas IV. Nuevas Florideas. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 24: 155-162.

Request PDF

Type designated in: 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.

Request PDF

Description: Upright blade-like thalli, up to 10 cm tall, attached to decumbent to prostrate cylindrical axes; blades probably annual, cylindrical axes perennial. Thalli basically polysiphonous, highly corticated, and axis not easily identifiable; internal tissue pseudoparenchymatous, large angular internal cells, small-celled cortex. Blades with variously lobed margins, apices with a few trichoblasts on segments near apex. Male plants described by Cormaci & al. 1994) for R. pinnata. Cystocarps attached by broad base to edge of blade-like branches. Tetrasporangia in the cortex of blades, borne in various parts of the blades, sometimes in defined sori.

Information contributed by: R.E. Norris & M.D. Guiry. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2020-07-20 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Comments: Subtidal in various parts of the Mediterranean Sea; one species in Viêt Nam (Pham-Hoàng Hô 1969).

Verification of Data
Users are responsible for verifying the accuracy of information before use, as noted on the website Content page.

Contributors
Some of the descriptions included in AlgaeBase were originally from the unpublished Encyclopedia of Algal Genera, organised in the 1990s by Dr Bruce Parker on behalf of the Phycological Society of America (PSA) and intended to be published in CD format. These AlgaeBase descriptions are now being continually updated, and each current contributor is identified above. The PSA and AlgaeBase warmly acknowledge the generosity of all past and present contributors and particularly the work of Dr Parker.

Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

Linking to this page: https://www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=34002

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 20 July 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 November 2024