Genus Radicipes Stearns, 1883

Diagnosis: Chrysogorgiidae growing normally in the form of simple whip-like colonies, with the base divided into calcareous root-like processes. Coenenchyme slender, with oblong scales sclerites. Well-separated, elongated polyps, oblique, with sclerites in the form of spindles or rods (Verrill, 1922, modified).

Type species: Radicipes pleurocristatus Stearns, 1883