Dasya puertoricensis I.Y.López-Piñero & D.L.Ballantine 2001
Publication Details
Dasya puertoricensis I.Y.López-Piñero & D.L.Ballantine 2001: 337, 342, figs 1-9
Published in: López-Piñero, I.Y. & Ballantine, D.L. (2001). Dasya puertoricensis sp. nov. (Dasyaceae, Rhodophyta) from Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea. Botanica Marina 44: 337-344.
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Dasya is Dasya pedicellata (C.Agardh) C.Agardh.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Holotype locality: Margarita Reef, La Parguera, Puerto Rico; (López-Piñero & Ballantine 2001: 337) Holotype: D.L. Ballantine 1334; 18 August 1983; 1.5 km seaward; 24 m depth; US Alg. Coll.; 198002 (López-Piñero & Ballantine 2001: 337) Notes: Holotype: D.L. Ballantine 1334 as Lophocladia trichoclados (C. Agardh) Schmitz.
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Description
Thalli erect, to 36 cm tall, alternately to radially branched; denuded below; axes to 1.5 mm in diameter below, decreasing to 0.05 mm above; axes corticated with rhizoidal filaments; pseudolaterals monosiphonous throughout, subdichotomously branched, spirally developed; densely placed pseudolaterals at the branch tips forming ocellate clusters; adventitious indeterminate branches initiated from basal cells of the pseudolaterals, adventitious monosiphonous laterals lacking; tetrasporangial stichidia cylindrical, measuring to a maximum of 175 microns in width and 425 microns in length, with 1- to 3- celled pedicels, rarely sessile; stichidia with up to eight fertile segments, arising at proximal subdichotomies of the pseudolaterals, tetrasporangia six, rarely seven, per segment, measuring 40-50 microns in diameter, each with three cover cells; cystocarps sessile with extensive cortication at the base which completely surrounds the fertile axis, the mature pericarp is obovate-globose measuring to 520 microns at its broadest and to 730 microns in length.
Created: 13 March 2006 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 17 August 2011
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 17 August 2011. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024
