Ramicrusta Zhang Derui & Zhou Jinghua, 1981
Holotype species: Ramicrusta nanhaiensis Zhang Derui & Zhou Jinghua
Original publication and holotype designation: Zhang, D.R. (Chang, T.J.) & Zhou, J.H. (1981). Ramicrusta, a new genus of Peyssonneliaceae. Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica 12(6): 538-544, 2 pls. [in Chinese, Latin and English]
Request PDFPrecise date of publication: Nov. 1981
Description: Thallus brown to purplish or reddish brown, heavily calcified internally and hypobasally, ±appressed crusts, with or without tortuous branched excrescences. Hypothallus composed of parallel radiating filaments. Perithallus dorsal only, usually consisting of upper and lower regions. Where distinct, the lower perithallus consisting of large thick-walled cells that develop secondary pit connections to adjacent cells, with or without cell fusions and/or horizontally directed filaments. Epithallus consisting of comparatively small deeply pigmented cells, without secondary pit connections and cell fusions. Hairs present or absent on the dorsal surface. Secondary thickening of the perithallus present or absent. Rhizoids robust, unicellular. Gametophytes presumably dioecious. Female nemathecia superficial, uncalcified and gelatinous, composed of unbranched paraphyses. Carpogonial branches 2-celled. Auxiliary cell branches 3- or 4-celled, borne laterally on the basal cells of paraphyses; subapical cell acting as the auxiliary cell. Spermatangia and mature carposporophytes unknown. Tetrasporangial nemathecia superficial, uncalcified and gelatinous, composed of unbranched paraphyses. Tetrasporangia decussate or cruciately divided, lateral on the basal cells of paraphyses.
Information contributed by: K.R. Dixon (2018). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2019-05-14 by M.D. Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Dixon, K.R. (2018). Peyssonneliales. In: Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of north-western Australia. 2. Red algae. (Huisman, J.M. Eds), pp. 208-244. Canberra & Melbourne: ABRS & CSIRO Publishing.
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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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