Endosiphonia Zanardini, 1878

Holotype species: Endosiphonia spinuligera Zanardini

Original publication and holotype designation: Zanardini, G. (1878). Phyceae papuanae novae vel minus cognitae a cl. O. Beccari in itinere ad Novam Guineam annis 1872-75 collectae. Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano 10: 34-40, no figs.

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Description: Thallus erect or sprawling, red to purple, with numerous secondary attachments, firm, profusely branched. Structure uniaxial, with 4 pericentral cells and additional medullary cells identical in length to the pericentral cells, giving the thallus a tiered appearance when viewed in longitudinal section. Spermatangia borne on fertile trichoblasts, these also bearing lateral sterile filaments. Procarps arising from the second segment of fertile trichoblasts. Cystocarps spherical, scattered on the thallus surface. Tetrasporangia in stalked cylindrical to fusiform stichidia, replacing trichoblasts; sporangia 1 per segment in a spiral series, when mature distorting the stichidium.

Information contributed by: Huisman (2018). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2018-10-09 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 Indo-Pacific tropics.

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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. 09 October 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 November 2024