Comprehensive Description
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Compsonema immixtum Setchell et N. L. Gardner
Compsonema immixtum Setchell et N. L. Gardner, 1924a:724, pl. 17: fig. 49; Setchell and Gardner, 1925:487; Dawson, 1944:222; Dawson, 1961b:390; González-González et al., 1996:143; Pacheco-Ruíz et al., 2008:204; Pedroche et al., 2008:69.
Algae minute, epiphytic; lower portion of prostrate basal filaments, creeping among the plurilocular reproductive structures of the host alga; upper portion with numerous erect, short unbranched filaments, most bearing plurilocular structures.
Unilocular sporangia not known. Plurilocular sporangia (?), narrow, ellipsoid, 24–30 µm long, and 6–8 µm in diameter; terminal on erect, short filaments (extending above the plurilocular structures of the host alga).
HABITAT. Epiphytic on Colpomenia phaeodactyla; intertidal.
DISTRIBUTION. Gulf of California: Isla Partida.
TYPE LOCALITY. Isla Partida, Islas de la Cintura, Gulf of California.
- bibliographic citation
- Norris, James N. 2010. "Marine algae of the northern Gulf of California : Chlorophyta and Phaeophyceae." Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 276-276. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.94.276
