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Home / Rhodophyceae / Macroreds / Osmundea |
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Name derivation: |
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Saxon name of the ‘god of thunder’(Dawes and Mathieson 2008). |
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Classification: |
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Osmundea Stackhouse 1809; 22 of 26 species descriptions are currently accepted taxonomically (Guiry and Guiry 2016).Subclass Florideophyceae; Order Ceramiales; Family Rhodomelaceae |
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Morphology: |
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Erect bushy thallus, fleshy to cartilaginous. Flat polysiphonous axes with radial or pinnate branching. Branchlets short and club-shaped (Dawes and Mathieson 2008). |
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Habitat: |
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Tropical coasts, 24 – 45 m deep. |
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References: |
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Dawes, C.J. and A.C. Mathieson 2008. Seaweeds of Florida. University Press of Florida (592 pp). Guiry, M.D. and G.M. Guiry 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 07 May 2013. Stackhouse, J. 1809. Tentamen marino-cryptogamicum, ordinem novum; in genera et species distributum, in Classe XXIVta Linnaei sistens. Mémoires de la Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou 2: [50]-97.
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