2 NEW SPECIES OF CAULERPA (CAULERPALES, CHLOROPHYTA) FROM THE WEST-COAST OF AUSTRALIA

Authors
PRICE IR HUISMAN JM BOROWITZKA MA
Citation
Ir. Price et al., 2 NEW SPECIES OF CAULERPA (CAULERPALES, CHLOROPHYTA) FROM THE WEST-COAST OF AUSTRALIA, Phycologia, 37(1), 1998, pp. 10-15
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences","Marine & Freshwater Biology
Journal title
Phycologia → ACNP
ISSN journal
00318884
Volume
37
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
10 - 15
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-8884(1998)37:1<10:2NSOC(>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
Two new species of Caulerpa (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta), C. constricta and C. heterophylla, are described from the coast of Western Australia . Caulerpa constricta is an articulate species with simple or branched cylindrical axes locking morphologically differentiated ramuli. In ge neral appearance, C. heterophylla most closely resembles Caulerpa flex ilis Lamouroux, especially var, muelleri (Sonder) Womersley. However, C. heterophylla differs in forming conical protuberances on the stolon s and two rather distinct types of unbranched ramuli on the fronds.