Udotea orientalis A.Gepp & E.S.Gepp 1911
Current name:
Udotea orientalis A.Gepp & E.S.Gepp
KwaZulu-NatalHeroen Verbruggen (heroen.verbruggen@gmail.com)
Publication Details
Udotea orientalis A.Gepp & E.S.Gepp 1911: 119, 142, pl. I [1]: fig. 4
Published in: Gepp, A. & Gepp, E.S. (1911). The Codiaceae of the Siboga Expedition including a monograph of Flabellarieae and Udoteae Siboga-Expeditie Monographie LXII. pp. 1-150, 22 pls. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Request PDFType Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Udotea is Udotea flabellum (J.Ellis & Solander) M.Howe.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Syntype localities: various in Indian and Pacific Oceans; Indonesia; Philippine Islands; (Silva & al. 1996: 885) (Coppejans & al. 2001: 429)
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), eastern.
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 09 March 1998 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 25 March 2022
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Distributional note
The record of Udotea orientalis from Fiji (Littler & Littler, 2003: 260) appears to be in error as no material of that species has been seen by us in current collections from that locality. Their photograph shows a plant with a thin blade where the parallel siphons are clearly visible, hinting at a monostromatic nature which is in contrast to the thicker, felty and woven plurisiphonous blade of 'true' R. orientalis. In our experience (Payri & N'Yeurt, unpubl.), Udotea glaucescens can show both a divided and undivided stipe with one to several monostromatic blades, and both Udotea records from Fiji in Littler & Littler (2003) would conform to U. glaucescens. - (04 September 2007)
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 25 March 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 March 2025
