Bifurcariopsis Papenfuss, 1940

Holotype species: Bifurcariopsis capensis (Areschoug) Papenfuss

Original publication and holotype designation: Papenfuss, G.F. (1940). Notes on South African marine algae. I. Botaniska Notiser 1940: 200-226, 16 figs.

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Description: Erect, solitary thallus to 30 cm in height, produced from a single conical grooved holdfast from which a series of repeatedly bifurcate, terete woody branches arise. Branching monopodial, triradiate (often not obviously so). Primary branches to 6 mm in diameter, arising direct from the holdfast without a specialised condensed main axis, with each order of branches successively thinner. Receptacles to more than 10 cm in length, produced as slight thickening of ultimate branchlets. Conceptacles bisexual with 4 eggs per oogonium. Antheridial filaments relatively long and unbranched bearing antheridia in terminal clusters.

Information contributed by: J. J. Bolton. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2014-06-21 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Silberfeld, T., Rousseau, F. & Reviers, B. de (2014). An updated classification of brown algae (Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae). Cryptogamie Algologie 35(2): 117-156, 1 fig., 1 table.

Comments: Single species, B. capensis, endemic to southwestern Cape Province, South Africa where it is common to abundant in low shore pools and the immediate subtidal.

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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. 21 June 2014. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 November 2024