Gigartina bracteata (S.G.Gmelin) Setchell & N.L.Gardner 1933

Publication Details
Gigartina bracteata (S.G.Gmelin) Setchell & N.L.Gardner 1933: 258

Published in: Setchell, W.A. & Gardner, N.L. (1933). A preliminary survey of Gigartina, with special reference to its Pacific North American species. University of California Publications in Botany 17: 255-339, Plates 46-65.

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Gigartina is Gigartina pistillata (S.G.Gmelin) Stackhouse.

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

Basionym
Fucus bracteatus S.G.Gmelin

Type Information
Type locality: "Mare indicum"*; (Silva & al. 1996: 903) Notes: *Silva et al. (1996: 903) note: Seba's (1758) illustrations, included in the protologue of Fucus bracteatus, were considered to constitute the type of F. bracteatus by Setchell & Gardner. Seba's material probably came from the Cape of Good Hope on the Atlantic Ocean. Gigartina bracteata is restricted to the cold waters of western Cape Province, South Africa. Rumphius (1750: 186) is also cited in the protologue. His alga (from Amboina on the Banda Sea, an outlier of the Pacific Ocean) was referred by G. Mertens (1863: 43) to Mastocarpus klenzeanus Kützing, a taxonomic synonym of Sarcodia montagneana (J. Hooker & Harvey J. Agardh. There is no indication that Gmelin had original collections at hand, so that the provenance "Mare indicum" shoud be considered erroneous. According to Parkinson (1981: 19), Gmelin's species is based primarily on the Rumphius plant and not on those of Seba (1750).

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), bearing bracts.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 21 February 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 25 April 2015

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