Ohelopapa F.Rousseau, Martin-Lescanne, Payri & L.Le Gall

Genus Ohelopapa F.Rousseau, Martin-Lescanne, Payri & L.Le Gall gen. nov. Fig. 3; Table 2 English diagnosis With the characters of the genus Laurencia such as four pericentral cells, but lacking secondary pit connections between cortical cells and ‘corps en cerise’ inclusions in cortical cells. Etymology Ohelopapa means “strawberry” in Tahitian, an allusion to the Tahitian origin, the red color, and the many stolons developed by Ohelopapa fexilis. Type species Ohelopapa fexilis (Setch.) F.Rousseau, Martin-Lescanne, Payri & L.Le Gall comb. nov. Sole species presently included in the genus.
Published as part of Florence Rousseau, Delphine Gey & Akira Kurihara, 2017, Molecular phylogenies support taxonomic revision of three species of Laurencia (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta), with the description of a new genus, pp. 1-19 in European Journal of Taxonomy 269 on page 8, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.269, http://zenodo.org/record/889397