Gayliella T.O.Cho, L.M.McIvor & S.M.Boo, 2008

Holotype species: Gayliella flaccida (Harvey ex Kützing) T.O.Cho & L.M.McIvor

Original publication and holotype designation: Cho, T.O., Boo, S.M., Hommersand, M.H., Maggs, C.A., McIvor, L. & Fredericq, S. (2008). Gayliella gen. nov. in the tribe Ceramieae (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Journal of Phycology 44: 721-738, 11 figs.

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Precise date of publication: 2 June 2008

Description: Thallus epiphytic, with limited to extensive prostrate axes and assurgent alternately to subdichotomously branched erect axes, attached to the host by unicellular rhizoids arising from periaxial cells. Axes filamentous, with nodal cortication; apices straight to forcipate. Nodes with 3–9 periaxial cells (some species with additional pseudoperiaxial cells), each with 3 or 4 corticating filaments; basipetal cortical initial single, transversely elongate. Spermatangia produced from cortical cells. Cystocarps near the apices, surrounded by involucral branches. Tetrasporangia generally in whorls on nodes, 1 per periaxial cell, involucrate, tetrahedrally divided.

Information contributed by: J.M. Huisman (2018). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-04-08 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: Huisman, J.M. (2018). Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of north-western Australia. 2. Red algae. pp. [i]-xii, 1-672, 189 figs. 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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