Mazoyerella Gordon-Mills & Womersley, 1974

Holotype species: Mazoyerella arachnoidea (Harvey) Gordon-Mills & Womersley

Original publication and holotype designation: Gordon-Mills, E.M. & Womersley, H.B.S. (1974). The morphology and life history of Mazoyerella gen. nov. (M. arachnoidea (Harvey) comb. nov.) - Rhodophyta, Ceramiaceae - from southern Australia. British Phycological Journal 9: 127-137.

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Description: Thallus of erect axes, subdichotomously branched, tapering upwardly, ecorticate, multinucleate. Procarps on subapical cells of axes with 4-celled carpogonial branches borne on second (supporting cell) of 2 pericentral cells. Auxiliary cell, cut off from supporting cell, producing carposporophyte with usually 3 successively developed groups of carposporangia. Some fusion of associated cells and an involucre of filaments. Spermatangial heads on cells of erect axes. Polysporangia on upper axial cells with 8-16 spores reproducing sexual plants. Monosporangia pedicillate on axial cells, asexual, on both sporophyte and gametophyte plants. Removed from Corynospora J. Agardh for which only monosporangiate plants are known. Sexual phases and monosporangia studied in field and culture. Polysporangia somewhat larger in culture plants.

Information contributed by: E.M. Wollaston. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2010-10-06 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: Not common, recorded from southern Australia as drift and epiphytic on Dasya villosa Harvey and Kallymenia cribosa Harvey.

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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. 06 October 2010. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 02 December 2024