Chambersius G.W.Saunders & Kraft, 2025
Holotype species: Chambersius thyrsus G.W.Saunders & Kraft
Publication details: G.W.Saunders & Kraft, 2025: 15
Original publication and holotype designation: Kraft, G.T. & Saunders, G.W. (2025). The Dicranemataceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta) revisited: molecular data indicate polyphyly in yet another wholly or primarily Australian endemic family. Australian Systematic Botany 38(SB24030): 1–24, 11 figures.
Request PDFDescription: Thalli filiform (Fig. 11a, b), 3–8 mm in length, the erect axes growing from a single, obliquely dividing apical cell (Fig. 11c) and arising from a creeping base anchored by tight clusters of parallel filaments forming short haptera (Fig. 11d). Erect axes 120–170 ?m in diameter, the prominent central-axial cells surrounded by a 2–3 layered cortex of sub-isodiametric cells and a single-celled surface-cortical layer (Fig. 11e). Central-axial cells elongate, with trumpeted ends and producing a single periaxial cell (rarely two), and subsequent filament giving rise to the cortical layers (Fig. 11f, g). Cortical hairs extending from ovoid to triangular bases in the surface cortex and passing through the cuticle through a papillate surface pore (Fig. 11h). Reproductive structures are not known.
Information contributed by: Original description of sole species.. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2025-03-25 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 masculine.
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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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