Microdictyon okamurae Setch.

Microd.ict.von Okamurai Setchell, Univ. Calif
3ot. Vol. 14: 553. 3?. 76-84. 1929.
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Fig. 76. Microdictyon Okamurai Setchell. Portion of the type specimen
(in Herb. Okamura). X 1.
16.	Microdictyon Okamurai Setchell
Figures 76-84
Setchell, Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot., vol. 13, p. 107, 1925.
Fronds dark green, harsh, not adhering to paper, irregular frag-
ments, up to 8 cm. (and probably larger) in diameter, venation
indistinct but separating the mesh into areas, branching opposite or
rarely appearing stellate, attached (?) by lower margin or surface
(?), rhizoidal filaments frequent toward the base; primary (coarser)
Microdictyon Okamurai Setchell	— \ 30
The range of this species is extended to the Taumotu or Low Islands, having
been collected atMakemo (between long. 145° and 150° W Greenwich, about
3000 miles from Lifue) by the members of the United States Fish Commission
Setchell: Notes on Microdictyon. Ill
131
steamer “Albatross” on October 21, 1899, the specimen kindly communicated
by Dr. William Randolph Taylor. This extension gives M. Okamurai an ex-
tremely wide range in the Pacific and eastern Indian oceans.
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