Delesseria sanguinea (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux 1813

Delesseria sanguinea (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux

Current name: Delesseria sanguinea (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Baltic SeaDirk Schories (dirk.schories@gmx.de)

Publication Details
Delesseria sanguinea (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux 1813: 122

Published in: Lamouroux, J.V.F. (1813). Essai sur les genres de la famille des Thalassiophytes non articulées. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 20: 21-47, 115-139, 267-293, plates 7-13.

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Publication date: 1813

Type Species
This is the type species (lectotype) of the genus Delesseria.

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

Basionym
Fucus sanguineus Hudson

Type Information
Syntype localities: Habitat in littoribus Eboracensi et Cornubensi [Living on the shores of York, NE England and Cornwall, SW England]; (Hudson 1762: 475)

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), blood-red (Stearn 1973).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Description
Membranous, bright crimson fronds, with cartilaginous, cylindrical, branched stipe, from thickened discoid holdfast, to 300 mm long. Branches bearing spirally arranged, leaflike, ovate-lanceolate blades, each with short stipe and pinnately branched midrib, membranous portion monostromatic, margin undulate (on mature blades), entire. Reproductive structures in small oval, stalked blades, borne on midribs in winter.

Habitat
On rocks, in deep shady lower intertidal pools and in the subtidal, generally distributed, common.

Created: 30 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 17 February 2020

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