Phymatolithon | |
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Scientific classification | |
(unranked): | Archaeplastida |
Division: | Rhodophyta |
Class: | Florideophyceae |
Order: | Corallinales |
Family: | Hapalidiaceae |
Genus: |
Phymatolithon Foslie, 1898 |
Species | |
At least 11, including
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Synonyms | |
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Phymatolithon is a genus of non geniculate coralline red algae, known from the UK, [3] and Australia. [4] It is encrusting, flat, and unbranched; it has tetrasporangia and bisporangia borne in multiporate conceptacles. [3] Some of its cells bear small holes in the middle; this distinctive thallus texture is termed a "Leptophytum-type" thallus surface, and has been posited as a taxonomically informative character. [3] It periodically sloughs off its epithallus, reducing its overgrowth by algae by as much as 50% compared to bare rock. [5]
Phymatolithon | |
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Scientific classification | |
(unranked): | Archaeplastida |
Division: | Rhodophyta |
Class: | Florideophyceae |
Order: | Corallinales |
Family: | Hapalidiaceae |
Genus: |
Phymatolithon Foslie, 1898 |
Species | |
At least 11, including
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Synonyms | |
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Phymatolithon is a genus of non geniculate coralline red algae, known from the UK, [3] and Australia. [4] It is encrusting, flat, and unbranched; it has tetrasporangia and bisporangia borne in multiporate conceptacles. [3] Some of its cells bear small holes in the middle; this distinctive thallus texture is termed a "Leptophytum-type" thallus surface, and has been posited as a taxonomically informative character. [3] It periodically sloughs off its epithallus, reducing its overgrowth by algae by as much as 50% compared to bare rock. [5]