Chondrymenia Zanardini, 1860

Holotype species: Chondrymenia lobata (Meneghini) Zanardini

Original publication and holotype designation: Zanardini, G. (1860). Scelta di ficee nuove o piú rare del mare Adriatico. Decade Prima. Memorie del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti 9(1): [41]-78, pls 1-VIII ["VII bis"].

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Description: Plants reach 8 cm in length and are erect, foliaceous, and lobed. The medulla is narrow and composed of a mixture of filaments and rhizoids, and the inner cortex is a mix of isodiametric and rhizoidal cells. Cystocarps incorporate a richly divided fusion cell, but gonimoblast stages and spermatangia are unknown, as are tetrasporangia. Plants reach 8 cm in length and are erect, foliaceous, and lobed. The medulla is narrow and composed of a mixture of filaments and rhizoids, and the inner cortex is a mix of isodiametric and rhizoidal cells. Cystocarps incorporate a richly divided fusion cell, but gonimoblast stages and spermatangia are unknown, as are tetrasporangia.

Information contributed by: G.T. Kraft. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2018-06-01 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Rodríguez-Prieto, C., Sartoni, G., Lin, S.M. & Hommersand, M.H. (2013 ). Comparative morphology and systematics of Chondrymenia lobata from the Mediterranean Sea and a phylogeny of the Chondrymeniaceae fam. nov. (Rhodophyta) based on rbcL sequence analyses. European Journal of Phycology 48(2): 188-199, 41 figures.

Comments: Distribution: Endemic to the Mediterranean from France to the Adriatic Sea. According to Boudouresque and Huve (1969), this is one of the rarest of all the Mediterranean algae, their collection dredged from 30 m depth being only the third of the species on record.

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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. 01 June 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 21 November 2024