Cheilosporum

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Cheilosporum
Corallina planiuscula Kütz. (type of) - Cheilosporum planiusculum (Kütz.) Yendo (species)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Order: Corallinales
Family: Corallinaceae
Subfamily: Corallinoideae
Genus: Cheilosporum
(Decaisne) Zanardini 1844[1]
Species

Cheilosporum is a genus of red algae in the family Corallinaceae.

The arrow coralline Cheilosporum sagittatum (Lamouroux) Areschoug is a seaweed of temperate waters of Australia (from Perth, Western Australia, to Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, and around Tasmania).[2]

Species formerly placed in the genus[edit]

Arthrocardia corymbosa (Lamarck) Decaisne 1842, syn. Cheilosporum corymbosum (Lamarck) Decaisne 1842, is a red alga of South Africa (Southern Cape Peninsula eastward).[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Corallinee. G Zanardini, Encicl. Ital.(Venezia: Tasso) 6, 1013-1036, 1844.
  2. ^ Edgar, Graham J. (2008). Australian Marine Life: The plants and animals of temperate waters (Second ed.). Sydney: New Holland. ISBN 9781921517174
  3. ^ Stegenga, H., Bolton, J.J., & Anderson, R.J. 1997. Seaweeds of the South African West Coast. Contributions from the Bolus Herbarium, University of Cape Town. ISBN 0-7992-1793-X

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