I. Y. López-Piñero, D. L. Ballantine
Dasya puertoricensis sp. nov. (Dasyaceae, Rhodophyta) from Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea
Dasya puertoricensis is newly described from subtidal habitats in southwestern Puerto Rico. The new species is characterized by its conspicuously dense, brush-like branch tips, rhizoidal cortication and by its indeterminate adventitious filaments which arise from pseudolateral basal cells. Adventitious monosiphonous laterals are absent. Tetrasporangial stichidia normally possess 6 sporangia per fertile whorl. The cystocarps are sessile with cortical cells at their broadened bases enveloping the bearing branches.
Botanica Marina, Walter de Gruyter
Print ISSN: 0006-8055
Volume: 44, 08/2001
Pages: 337 - 344
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