Hymenocladia usnea (R.Brown ex Turner) J.Agardh
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Rhodymeniales
Family Hymenocladiaceae
Genus Hymenocladia
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Hymenocladia usnea, Point Lonsdale, Victoria, Australia. 15 Nov 2009. M.D. Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).
Seabird, Western Australia.. John Huisman. © John Huisman (j.huisman@murdoch.edu.au). From: Huisman, J.M. (2000). Marine Plants of Australia. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia..
From: Harvey, W.H. (1858-1863). Phycologia australica. Vols 1-5. Plates I-CCC. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. Available on CD from http://www.phycology.ugent.be/harvey.
Hymenocladia usnea (R.Brown ex Turner) J.Agardh Hymenocladia usnea, Point Lonsdale, Victoria, Australia
Publication details
Hymenocladia usnea (R.Brown ex Turner) J.Agardh 1852: (1851-1863): 772
Original publication: Agardh, J.G. (1852). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumis secundi: Algas florideas complectens. Part 2, fasc. 2. pp. 577-700 [701-720, Addenda and Index]. Lundae [Lund]: C.W.K. Gleerup.
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Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Hymenocladia.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Fucus usnea R.Brown ex Turner
Type information
Type locality: Kent Islands, Bass Strait, Australia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 368). Holotype: R. Brown; BM (Womersley 1996: 109).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus usnea R.Brown ex Turner 1811
Chondria usnea (R.Brown ex Turner) C.Agardh 1822
Halymenia usnea (R.Brown ex Turner) Greville 1830
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Hymenocladia ramalina Harvey 1855
Gracilaria ramalina (Harvey) Harvey 1863
Chondrococcus squarrosus Kützing 1867
Hymenocladia gracilarioides J.Agardh 1876
Chrysymenia husseyana J.Agardh 1894
General environment
This is a marine species.
Distribution by country
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Hymenocladia usnea (R.Brown ex Turner) J.Agardh)
Australia and New Zealand: Bass Strait (Womersley 1996, Huisman 2000), Houtman Abrolhos (Huisman 1997), South Australia (Womersley 1996, Huisman 2000), Victoria (Womersley 1996, Huisman 2000), Western Australia (Womersley 1996, Huisman 2000).
(as Hymenocladia gracilarioides J.Agardh)
Australia and New Zealand: Queensland (Lewis 1984 
).
Key references
Silva, P.C., Basson, P.W. & Moe, R.L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: 1-1259.
Womersley, H.B.S. (1996). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia - Part IIIB - Gracilariales, Rhodymeniales, Corallinales and Bonnemaisoniales. Vol. 5 pp. 1-392, 160 figs. Canberra & Adelaide: Australian Biological Resources Study & the State Herbarium of South Australia.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Hymenocladia&species=usnea
SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Hymenocladia&Species=usnea
Created: 21 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 19 March 2009 by Wendy Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 778 times since it was created.
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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013.
AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 May 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:74796
