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SCHIZYMENIA DAWSONII AND ITS RELATION TO THE GENUS SEBDENIA (SEBDENIACEAE, RHODOPHYTA)
Author(s) -
Hansen Gayle I.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1220886
Subject(s) - genus , biology , subtropics , zoology , botany , geography , ecology
Summary The red alga Schizymenia dawsonii Abbott has been found to have both vegetative and reproductive features that link it closely with the widespread tropical/subtropical genus Sebdenia Berthold. The new binomial Sebdenia dawsonii (Abbott) comb. nov. is proposed.