Synarthrophyton

{{Short description|Genus of algae}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Synarthrophyton

| authority = Townsend, 1979{{Cite web|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=370272|title=WoRMS: Synarthrophyton|website=World Register of Marine Species}}

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Synarthrophyton is a genus of thalloid red algae comprising eight species. The monomerous, crustose thalli are composed of a single system of filaments which grow close to the underlying surface. Synarthrophyton reproduces by means of flask-shaped multiporate conceptacles; it produces tetraspores and dispores. Mucus plugs the opening of young conceptacles, which open as they mature.{{cite journal

| doi = 10.1080/09541449710001719375

| author1 = Keats, D. W

| author2 = Chamberlain, Y. M

| title = The non-geniculate coralline algae Synarthrophyton eckloniae (Foslie) comb. nov. And S. magellanicum (Foslie) comb. nov. (Rhodophyta) in South Africa including comparison with relevant types

| journal = European Journal of Phycology

| volume = 32

| issue = 1

| pages = 55–79

| year = 1997

| doi-access = free

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