Campylaephora J.Agardh, 1851

Holotype species: Campylaephora hypnaeoides J.Agardh

Original publication and holotype designation: Agardh, J.G. (1851). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen secundum: algas florideas complectens. Part 1. pp. [i]-xii, [1]-336 + 337-351 [Addenda and Indices]. Lundae [Lund]: C.W.K. Gleerup.

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Description: Thallus erect, axes monosiphonous, dichotomously-branched, densely corticated. Branch apices inwardly curved, young cells with 7 pericentral cells giving rise to inner and outer cortical cells and elongate cortical filaments.Procarps with 4-celled carpogonial branches on first-formed pericentral supporting) cells of young axial cells near branch apices. Fusion of carpogonium with auxiliary cell cut off from supporting cell leads to carposporophyte with rounded groups of carposporangia. Spermatangia on cells of outer cortex on upper branches. Tetrasporangia initiated on young pericentral cells, tetrahedrally-divided, immersed in branch cortex when mature.

Information contributed by: E.M. Wollaston. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2010-10-05 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: Closely related to Ceramium but more robust with thicker cortex and rhizoidal cortical filaments. Recorded only from Japan and Korea. Usually epiphytic.

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Some of the descriptions included in AlgaeBase were originally from the unpublished Encyclopedia of Algal Genera, organised in the 1990s by Dr Bruce Parker on behalf of the Phycological Society of America (PSA) and intended to be published in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.

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 05 October 2010. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 November 2024