Craspedocarpus blepharicarpus (Harvey) Min-Thein & Womersley 1976

Current name: Craspedocarpus blepharicarpus (Harvey) Min-Thein & Womersley
Cape Peron, Western Australia - 02 January 2019. J.M. Huisman

Publication Details
Craspedocarpus blepharicarpus (Harvey) Min-Thein & Womersley 1976: 106, figs 39A,C-E, 40, 63B

Published in: Min-Thein, U. & Womersley, H.B.S. (1976). Studies on southern Australian taxa of Solieriaceae, Rhabdoniaceae and Rhodophyllidaceae (Rhodophyta). Australian Journal of Botany 24: 1-166, 69 figs.

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Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Craspedocarpus is Craspedocarpus erosus (Hooker f. & Harvey) F.Schmitz.

Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Rhodophyllis blepharicarpa Harvey

Type Information
Type locality: Swan River, Western Australia; (Silva & al. 1996: 285) Notes: Womersley (1994: 423) gives the following data for the type: Type from Garden and Rottnest Is, W. Aust.; lectotype in Herb. Harvey, TCD (not yet chosen). Silva et al. (1966: 285) note that Harvey cited "Garden Island and Rottnest" (pl. CCLIV) and "Fremantle" (p. xl), but the holotype sheet reproduced as fig. 63B in Min-Thein & Womersley (1976) is marked "Swan R.".

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Habitat
Occurs mainly in moderate depths under slight to moderate water movement, commonly as an epiphyte on Amphibolis stems (Womersley 1994: 423).

Created: 16 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 23 July 2011

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 23 July 2011. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 May 2025