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Electronic Flora of South Australia Genus Fact Sheet
Phylum Chlorophyta – Order Caulerpales – Family Udoteaceae
Thallus uncalcified, tufted, composed of coarse, free filaments, distantly subdichotomous, arising from a dense, entangled, rhizoidal base. Filaments constricted above each dichotomy, constrictions symmetrical or asymmetrical.
Reproduction: Reproduction (known in C. baculifera) by zooids formed in ovoid zooidangia in dense lateral clusters on upper branches (Ducker 1965).
Type species: C. comosa Harvey & Bailey.
Taxonomic notes: Chlorodesmis is a genus of some 6 species (Ducker 1967) in the Indo-Pacific region. It differs from most other genera (except Pseudochlorodesmis) of the Udoteaceae in that the filaments are free, not entangled or united to form a complanate or slightly compressed thallus.
References:
DUCKER, S.C. (1965). The structure and reproduction of the green alga Chlorodesmis bulbosa. Phycologia 4, 149–162.
DUCKER, S.C. (1967). The genus Chlorodesmis (Chlorophyta) in the Indo-Pacific Region. Nova Hedwigia 13, 145–182, Plates 25–43.
HARVEY, W.H. & BAILEY, J.W. (1851). Descriptions of Seventeen New Species of Algae by the United States Exploring Expedition. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 3, 370–373.
The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia Part I complete list of references.
Publication:
Womersley, H.B.S. (31 May, 1984)
The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia
Part I
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