Polysiphonia stricta (Mertens ex Dillwyn) Greville 1824

Publication Details
Polysiphonia stricta (Mertens ex Dillwyn) Greville 1824: 309

Published in: Greville, R.K. (1824). Flora edinensis: or a description of plants growing near Edinburgh, arranged according to the Linnean system, with a concise introduction to the natural orders of the class Cryptogamia, and illustrated plates. pp. i-lxxxi, 1-478. Edinburgh: Printed for William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and T. Cadell, Strand, London.

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Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Polysiphonia is Polysiphonia urceolata (Lightfoot ex Dillwyn) Greville.

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

Basionym
Conferva stricta Mertens ex Dillwyn

Type Information
Syntype localities: "On rocks in the sea at Dover [Kent] and Swansea [Wales]."; (Dillwyn 1804: pl. 40) Lectotype (Swansea): Dillwyn; undated; BM-K; (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 355) Notes: .

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), drawn close together, very upright, very straight (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Description
Soft, slender cylindrical, usually densely tufted, deep red fronds, to 200 mm long, from creeping rhizoidal base. Branching pseudodichotomous to distally alternate. Minute central siphon with 4 pericentral siphons, ecorticate. Articulations 3-5 times as long as broad in main branches, rather shorter than broad in ramuli.

Habitat
On rocks, shells and epiphytic (especially on Laminaria hyperborea stipes), intertidal at all levels and subtidal, generally distributed, abundant, particularly on wave-exposed shores.

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 08 December 2020

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Taxonomic note
John et al. (2004) cite Polysiphonia lepadicola (Lyngb.) Kütz as a synonym of this species. - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

Habitat note
mid to low intertidal of sand-covered rocks from moderately to extremely wave-exposed sites (Diaz-Tapia & Bárbara 2013) - (27 January 2014) - G.M. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 08 December 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 March 2025

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