Bryocladia F.Schmitz, 1897

Holotype species: Bryocladia cervicornis (Kützing) F.Schmitz

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: Thallus comprised of prostrate branches, attached by unicellular rhizoids, and erect branches, up to 10 cm long, having a percurrent axis with few secondary axes. All branches ecorticate, densely clothed with short, determinate, spine-like, exogenous polysiphonous branchlets, spirally arranged, and with up to 12 pericentral cells. Secondary endogenous branchlets bearing trichoblasts adventitiously formed in axils of some spine-like branchlets on upright axes. Reproductive structures borne on secondary, endogenously derived branchlets. Tetrasporangia single in a segment, in a straight series, stichidia in clusters on short axis. Cystocarps urceolate to spheroidal, lateral on branchlet, with a short stalk. Spermatangial capitula replace trichoblasts, conoidal, with sterile tip; in clusters on short axis.

Information contributed by: R.E. Norris. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2017-07-18 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: Widely distributed in tropical and sub-tropical to temperate regions: the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean and Brazil, Viet Nam, West Africa, Southeast Africa (Mozambique and Natal), Australia and New Zealand. Very close to Tayloriella; all branches in Tayloriella supposedly exogenously derived, whereas endogenous branchlets characteristic of Bryocladia

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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. 18 July 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024