Hypnea ramentacea (C.Agardh) J.Agardh 1876

Publication Details
Hypnea ramentacea (C.Agardh) J.Agardh 1876: 561

Published in: Agardh, J.G. (1876). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen tertium: De Florideis curae posteriores. Epicrisis systematis Floridearum. pp. [ii*-iii*], [i]-[viï], [1]-724. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: apud T.O. Weigel.

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Publication date: Apr-Aug 1876 [TL2]

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Hypnea is Hypnea musciformis (Wulfen) J.V.Lamouroux.

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

Basionym
Chondria ramentacea C.Agardh

Type Information
Type locality: "Ad oras novae Hollandiae"; (Silva & al. 1996: 304) Holotype: PC; “No. 21” (Womersley 1994: 441) Notes: Womersley (1994: 441) notes that there is a fragment of the type in Herb. Agardh, LD (27514).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Habitat
A common species on rough-water coasts, epiphytic on a variety of other algae (Womersley 1994: 441).

Created: 19 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 16 January 2020

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 16 January 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024

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