Apoglossum ruscifolium (Turner) J.Agardh 1898

Publication Details
Apoglossum ruscifolium (Turner) J.Agardh 1898: 194

Published in: Agardh, J.G. (1898). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Voluminis Tertii, Pars Tertia. De dispositione Delesseriearum curae posteriores. pp. i-vii, 1-239. Lundae [Lund]: apud C.W.K. Gleerup.

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

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

Basionym
Fucus ruscifolius Turner

Type Information
Holotype locality: "Inter rejectamenta maris apud Yarmouth in Norfolcia. Perennis: Floret Januarlo Februario." [Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, amongst the rejectamenta of the sea. Perennial, flowering in January and February]; (Turner 1802: 127) Lectotype: BM-K; (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 203)

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Description
Membranous, tufted, bright red fronds, to 100 mm long. Frond with conspicuous midrib and wavy margin, to 6 mm wide, repeatedly branched from midrib, apices blunt. Numerous microscopic veins, at wide angle from midrib.

Habitat
On rock and epiphytic, lower intertidal and subtidal, widely distributed, occasional. Apoglossocolax pusilla Maggs et Hommersand, a minute parasite to 2 mm in diameter, rarely (Dorset and Galway) occurs on this species.

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

Last updated: 11 December 2023

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 11 December 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 21 November 2024

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