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Electronic Flora of South Australia Genus Fact Sheet

Genus BORNETIA Thuret 1855: 159 With the characters of the tribe.

Phylum Rhodophyta – Order Ceramiales – Family Ceramiaceae – Tribe Bornetieae

Type species: B. secundiflora (J. Agardh) Thuret 1855: 159, pls 1,2.

Taxonomic notes: A genus of 5 species, world wide in distribution.

References:

THURET, G. (1855). Note sur un nouveau genre d'algues de la famille des Floridées. Mem. Soc. sci. nat. Cherbourg 3, 155–160, Plates 1, 2.

The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia Part IIIC complete list of references.

Author: R.N. Baldock & H.B.S. Womersley

Publication: Womersley, H.B.S. (24 December, 1998)
The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia
Rhodophyta. Part IIIC. Ceramiales – Ceramiaceae, Dasyaceae
©State Herbarium of South Australia, Government of South Australia

KEY TO SPECIES OF BORNETIA

1. Thallus robust, flabellate, branching mostly unilateral; cells large, 500–900 µm in diameter, L/D 2–4

B. binderiana

1. Thallus delicate, tufted, branching subdichotomous; cells 200–250 in diameter, L/D 5–8

B. tenuis


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