Millerella G.H.Boo & S.M.Boo, 2016

Holotype species: Millerella albertanoae (A.Bottalico, G.H.Boo, C.Russo, S.M. Boo & C.Perrone) G.H.Boo & A.Bottalico

Original publication and holotype designation: Boo, G.H., Nguyen, T.V., Kim, J.Y., Le Gall, L., Rico, J.M., Botallico, A. & Boo, S.M. (2016). A revised classification of the Gelidiellaceae (Rhodophyta) with descriptions of three new genera: Huismaniella, Millerella and Perronella. Taxon 65(5): 965-979, 6 figs.

Description: Plants consisting of terete prostrate axes, attached by clumps of unicellular rhizoids arising irregularly along prostrate axes. Erect axes terete to compressed, subdistichously branched. Apical cells single, dome-shaped. Subapical cells distichously divided. Outermost cortical cells regularly to irregularly arranged in surface view. Axial and periaxial cells aligned in the thallus medial plane, remaining obvious especially in the upper and middle parts of the thallus. Tetrasporangial sori formed in apical parts of erect axes and lateral branches; tetrasporangia initiated from periaxial cells, subspherical, regularly arranged in parallel transverse tiers or in chevrons. Sexual reproductive structures not observed.

Information contributed by: Original description.. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2019-05-17 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., Boo, G.H. & Boo, S.M. (2018). Gelidiales. In: Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of north-western Australia. 2. Red algae. (Huisman, J.M. Eds), pp. 245-264. 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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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 17 May 2019. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024