Gongolaria Boehmer, 1760

Holotype species: Gongolaria abies-marina (S.G.Gmelin) Kuntze

Original publication and holotype designation: Ludwig, C.G. (1760). Definitiones generum plantarum olim in usum auditorum collectas nunc auctas et emendates edidit D. Georgius Rudolphus Boehmer Medic. Prof. Publ. Ord. Wittebergensis [Ed. 3]. pp. xlviii, index, 516, 1 Erratum, numerous woodcuts. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Ex officina Joh. Frideric Gleditschii.

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Description: Thalli large, perennial, erect, epilithic, arborescent, non-caespitose, usually arising from a discoid/conical holdfast, sometimes from prostrate axes with haptera; primary axes dorsiventrally flattened or cylindrical; primary laterals cylindrical, annual, usually exceeding length of primary axis, radially branched, mainly smooth throughout length, at least at the base, occasionally with small, widely spaced, spiny appendages upwards; higher order branches with or without spines, sometimes slightly iridescent, with scattered, inner aerocysts and cryptostomata; tophules present or absent; in section, thallus parenchymatous, comprising a central medulla of small polygonal cells, surrounded by a cortex of larger, globose, thickwalled cells within an enclosing unicellular, palisade-like meristoderm of squared cells. Monoecious, receptacles on terminal branchlets, with spiny appendages, bearing few or clusters of conceptacles at the base of each fertile spine; conceptacles usually hermaphrodite, oogonia borne around base, large, with a single egg, which upon release may be incubated on receptacle surface; antheridia small, sessile on branched multicellular paraphyses.

Information contributed by: Fletcher (2024: 595-6).. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-11-01 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: Molinari-Novoa, E.A. & Guiry, M.D. (2020). Reinstatement of the genera Gongolaria Boehmer and Ericaria Stackhouse (Sargassaceae, Phaeophyceae). Notulae Algarum 172: 1-10, 2 figures.

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