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Electronic Flora of South Australia Genus Fact Sheet
Phylum Phaeophyta – Order Ectocarpales
Thallus heterotrichous, mat-like with long, mostly simple, erect branches from a branched entangled base, uniseriate and of similar diameter throughout; hairs absent. Growth diffuse, but often with meristematic regions in lower part of filaments. Cells generally short, with one or two clusters of elongate phaeoplasts, radiating in an axile position and often appearing stellate, each phaeoplast with a terminal pyrenoid in the centre of the stellate group.
Reproduction: Reproduction by unilocular sporangia formed in intercalary series in the filaments, with occasional cells dividing longitudinally; plurilocular organs unknown.
Type and only species: B. fulvescens (Bornet) Kuckuck ex Hamel [= B. antillarum (Grunow) Gerloff 1959: 38].
Taxonomic notes: A monospecific genus, widely distributed in temperate and tropical seas. Pedersen (1984, p. 50) places Bachelotia in his Pilayellaceae.
References:
GERLOFF, J. (1959). Bachelotia (Bornet) Kuckuck ex Hamel oder Bachelotia (Bornet) Fox? Nova Hedwigia 1, 37–39.
HAMEL, G. (1939a). Sur la classification des Ectocarpales. Bot. Not. 1939, 65–70.
PEDERSEN, P.M. (1984). Studies on primitive brown algae (Fucophyceae). Opera Bot. 74, 1–76.
The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia Part II complete list of references.
Publication:
Womersley, H.B.S. (14 December, 1987)
The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia
Part II
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