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Description: |
Erect thallus, filamentous, uncropped and with alternate ramifications. The lateral branches also divide alternately giving rise to the cystocarpus, which consists of small quadratic cells and rounded apices. Original publication: Nägeli, C. (1862 '1861'). Beiträge zur morphologie und systematik der Ceramiaceae. Sitzungsberichte der Königlichen Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 1861(2): 297-415, 30 figs, 1 plate.
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| References |
Maggs, C.A. & Hommersand, M.H. (1993). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 3A. Ceramiales. pp. xv + 444, 129 figs, map. London: HMSO. Wynne, M.J. (2005). A check-list of benthic marine algae of the tropical and subtropical western Atlantic: second revision. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 129: 1-152. |
| Type information: |
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Pleonosporium Basionym: Conferva borreri Smith Type locality: Yarmouth, Norfolk, England (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 419). Lectotype: Borrer; 9.x.1806; TCD (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 168). |
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