New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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Plocamium cirrhosum comb. nov. (Plocamiales, Rhodophyta) to replace P. costatum

M. J. Wynne

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Herbarium
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

Abstract   The status of Fucus cirrhosus , described from Dusky Sound, New Zealand, is clarified. Type material in BM has been examined and shown to be identical to the red alga currently known as Plocamium costatum and not a taxonomic synonym of the South African-based P . corallorhiza . Plocamium cirrhosum comb. nov. is proposed as the correct name for this alga occurring in New Zealand and Australia.

Keywords   biogeography; marine algae; new combination; Plocamiaceae; Plocamium; P . cirrhosum; P . costatum; P . cunninghamii; Rhodophyta

B01031 Received 12 July 2001; accepted 28 November 2001
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2002, Vol. 40 : 137–142
0028–825X/02/4001–0137 $7.00 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2002

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