Plumaria plumosa (Hudson) Kuntze
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Biliphyta
Phylum Rhodophycophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Ceramiales
Family Wrangeliaceae
Tribe Ptiloteae
Genus Plumaria
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Muigh Inis, Co. Galway, Ireland; on rock. 13 Apr 2006. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Finavarra, Co. Clare, Ireland; rocks at MLWN. 12 Aug 2002. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Finavarra, Co. Clare, Ireland; pools at MLWN; apices. 12 Aug 2002. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Finavarra, Co. Clare, Ireland; rocks MLWN; to about 40 mm long. 12 Aug 2002. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
lower intertidial, Spain, Galicia, Ría de Coruña, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
Plumaria plumosa (Hudson) Kuntze Finavarra, Co. Clare, Ireland; rocks at MLWN
Publication details
Plumaria plumosa (Hudson) Kuntze 1891: 911
Original publication: Kuntze, O. (1891). Revisio generum plantarum. Pars 2. pp. 375-1011. Leipzig, London, Milano, New York, Paris: Arthur Felix, Dulau & Co., U. Hoepli, Gust. A. Schechert, Charles Klincksierck.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Plumaria is Plumaria elegans (Bonnemaison) F.Schmitz.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Fucus plumosus Hudson
Type information
Type locality: England (Maggs & Hommersand 1993). Lectotype: Dillenius in Ray (1762, pl. 2: fig. 5) (epitype) (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 35).
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), feathery (Stearn 1973).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus plumosus Hudson 1762
Ceramium plumosum (Hudson) Roth 1806
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Ptilota plumosa var. tenuissima C.Agardh 1822
Plumaria plumosa var. tenuissima C.Agardh 1822
Ptilota elegans Bonnemaison 1828
Ptilota sericea Harvey 1848
Plumaria elegans (Bonnemaison) F.Schmitz 1889
General environment
This is a marine species.
Description
Soft, tufted, dark blackish or brownish red fronds, monosiphonous, corticate below, ecorticate above, to 100 mm long. Fronds repeatedly pinnate, branching dichotomous or alternate, ramuli opposite. Ultimate ramuli close-set, blunt, slightly curved, longer on outer side than on inner.
Habitat
On shady vertical rock faces, lower intertidal, widely distributed, common.
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Fucus plumosus Hudson)
Ireland: Wexford (Tighe 1803).
Europe: Ireland (Tighe 1803).
(as Ptilota sericea Harvey)
Ireland: Antrim (Dickie 1871), Dublin (Sanders 1860).
Europe: Ireland (Sanders 1860).
(as Plumaria elegans (Bonnemaison) F.Schmitz)
Ireland: Antrim (Guiry 1978), Clare (Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983), Cork (Cullinane 1971, Cullinane, McCarthy & Fletcher 1975, Guiry 1978), Donegal (Guiry 1978), Down (Morton 1974, Guiry 1978), Dublin (Guiry 1978), Galway (Guiry 1978, Cullinane & Whelan 1983, Maggs 1983), Kerry (Guiry 1978), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Waterford (Guiry 1978), Wexford (Cotton 1913, Parkes & Scannell 1969, Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), Faroes (Irvine 1982), France (Feldmann 1954), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972), Ireland (Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913, Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Portugal (Ardré 1970), Spain (Miranda 1931, Pérez-Cirera & Maldonado 1982, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992), Sweden (Kylin 1907).
North America: New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986, Mathieson & Hehre 1986).
(as Plumaria plumosa (Hudson) Kuntze)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1994).
Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Hardy & Guiry 2003, Hommersand et al. 2006), Faroes (Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Coppejans 1995, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Morton 1994), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Valenzuela Miranda 2002, Bárbara et al., 2003, Bárbara et al. 2005), Sweden (Kylin 1944).
North America: Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001), New Brunswick (Bates et al. 2005).
Taxonomic notes
Guiry (1997) suggests consulting Maggs & Hommersand (1993) on the synonymy between Halurus flosculosus and Griffithsia flosculosa.
Key references
Bates, C.R., Saunders, G.W. & Chopin, T. (2005). An assessment of two taxonomic distinctness indices for detecting seaweed assemblage responses to environmental stress. Botanica Marina 48: 231-243.
Braune, W. (2008). Meeresalgen. Ein Farbbildführer zu den verbreiteten benthischen Grün- Braun- und Rotalgen der Weltmeere. pp. [1]-596, 266 pls. Ruggell: A.R.G. Gantner Verlag.
Hommersand, M.H., Freshwater, D.W., Lopez-Bautista, J.M. & Fredericq, S. (2006). Proposal of the Euptiloteae Hommersand et Fredericq, trib. nov. and transfer of some southern hemisphere Ptiloteae to the Callithamnieae (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 42: 203-225.
Loiseaux-de Goër, S. & Noailles, M.-C. (2008). Algues de Roscoff. pp. [1]-215, col. figs. Roscoff: Editions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.
Maggs, C.A. & Hommersand, M.H. (1993). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 3A. Ceramiales. pp. xv + 444, 129 figs, map. London: HMSO.
SAG Cultures
No records have been found on the SAG site.
NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 20 November 2008 by M.D. Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1975 times since it was created.
References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)
Cullinane, J.P. & Murphy, J.P. (1976). The distribution of Ptilota plumosa (Huds.) C. Ag. and Plumaria elegans (Bonnem.) Schm. in Ireland. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society Ser. A., 5(27): 475-490.
