Trichogloea requienii was collected in Bahia (northeastern Brazil). The genus is recognized easily for presenting moderate calcification between assimilatory filaments (cortex) and medulla, spermatangia mother cells in whorls on subterminal cortical cells, carpogonial branch at the end of the assimilatory filaments and sterile filaments at the lower cells of the carpogonial branch. Description and detailed illustrations of the taxon are presented as well as comparation with related species. This is the first citation of this genus to the South Atlantic.
Rhodophyta; Liagoraceae; taxonomy; Trichogloea
