Grateloupia ramosa Wang & Luan sp. nov. (Halymeniaceae, Rhodophyta), a new species from China based on morphological evidence and comparative rbcL sequences
Grateloupia ramosa Wang & Luan sp. nov. (Halymeniaceae, Rhodophyta), a new species from China based on morphological evidence and comparative rbcL sequences
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10.1007/s00343-015-4335-z
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2016-03
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C. Cao;Miao Liu;Shaoru Guo;Dan-Ni Zhao;Rixiao Luan;Hongwei Wang
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作者:
C. Cao;Miao Liu;Shaoru Guo;Dan-Ni Zhao;Rixiao Luan;Hongwei Wang
Grateloupiaramosa Wang & Luan sp. nov. (Halymeniaceae, Rhodophyta) is newly described from Hainan Province, southern China. The organism has the following morphological features: (1) purplish red, cartilaginous and lubricous thalli 5–10 cm in height; (2) compressed percurrent axes bearing abundant branches with opposite arrangement; (3) claw-like apices on top, constricted to 2–4 cm at the base; (4) cortex consisting of 3–6 layers of elliptical or anomalous cells and a medulla covered by compact medullary filaments; (5) reproductive structures distributed throughout the thallus, especially centralized at the bottom of the end portion of the branches; and (6) 4-celled Carpogonial branches and 3-celled auxiliary-cell branches, both of theGrateloupia-type. The morphological diff erences were supported by molecular phylogenetics based on ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rbcL) gene sequence analysis. There was only a 1 bp divergence between specimens collected from Wenchang and Lingshui of Hainan province. The new species was embedded in the largeGrateloupiaclade of the Halymeniaceae. The pairwise distances betweenG. ramosaand other species withinGrateloupiaranged from 26 to 105 bp, within pairwise distances of 13–111 bp between species of the large genusGrateloupiain Halymeniaceae. Thus, we propose this new species asG. ramosaWang & Luan sp. nov.