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Volume 59, Issue 2, December 2017

Articles

Eight New Additions to Marine Macro Algal Flora of Karnataka Coast, India

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v59/2017/120454

Published 2017-12-01

  • M. Palanisamy
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  • S. K. Yadav

M. Palanisamy
Botanical Survey of India, Southern Regional Centre, Coimbatore - 641 003, Tamil Nadu

S. K. Yadav
Botanical Survey of India, Southern Regional Centre, Coimbatore - 641 003, Tamil Nadu

Abstract

Comprehensive explorations conducted during the years 2014-2017 along the Karnataka coast, India revealed new distributional record of eight marine macro algae belongs to class Chlorophyceae under 6 families namely Enteromorpha linza (L.) J. Agardh, Acrosiphonia orientalis (J. Agardh) P. C. Silva, Chaetomorpha aerea (Dillwyn) Kuetz., Chaetomorpha crassa (C. Agardh) Kuetz., Chaetomorpha spiralis Okamura, Cladophoropsis sundanensis Reinbold, Bryopsis hypnoides J.V. Lamour. and Codium dwarkense Boergesen. All these taxa are enumerated here with the correct citation, a short description, notes on its occurance and associated species.

Keywords

Additions, Flora, Karnataka Coast, Marine Macro Algae, Chlorophyceae.

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