Kumanoa procarpa (Skuja) Entwisle, M.L. Vis, W.B. Chiasson, Necchi & A.R. Sherwood
"Plants moderately mucilaginous, rigid; branching pseudodichotomous and abundant; apices straight, apical cells embedded within the fascicles; 2.0-7.0 cm high, 150-400 µm in diameter. Whorls well developed, usually distinct and separated, obconic or barrel-shaped, compressed and indistinct in older parts. Internode 150-350 µm long. Pericentral cells spherical with 1-2 primary fascicles; rhizoidal filaments well developed, forming 2-3 layers of cylindrical cells. Primary fascicles audouinelloid, curved, 6-10 cell-storeys, proximal cells cylindrical, L/D 2.5-5.0; distal cells cylindrical or barrel-shaped, L/D 1.5-3.0; branching unilateral or alternate. Secondary fascicles abundant, curved, covering the entire internode and as long as primary fascicles.
Monoecious. Spermatangia spherical or obovoid, terminal or sub-terminal on primary or secondary fascicles, 5.0-8.5 µm in diameter. Carpogonial branches helically twisted, arising from pericentral cells, composed of 6-9 disc- or barrel- shaped cells; involucral filaments short, 1-3 cell-storeys; carpogonia 35.0-65.0 µm long; trichogynes cylindrical or club-shaped, unstalked, 8.0-13.0 µm in diameter. Carposporophytes 1-2 per whorl, loose, semi-spherical, higher than the whorl radius, 170-330 µm in diameter, 80-170 µm high; gonimoblast filaments 4-7 cell-storeys; cells cylindrical; carposporangia obovoid, 10.0-15.0 µm long, 7.0-10.5 µm in diameter."
Necchi, O. Jr. & Vis, M.L. 2012. Monograph of the genus Kumanoa (Rhodophyta, Batrachospermales). Bibliotheca Phycologica 116. J. Cramer. Pp. 78. ISBN 978-3-443-60043-3.
Kumano, S. (2002). Freshwater red algae of the world. Biopress, Ltd. 375 pp.
Skuja, H. 1931. Einiges zur Kenntnis der brasilianischen Batrachospermen. Hedwigia 71: 78-87.
Type Locality: Brazil.
Distribution: Brazil.
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