Cordylecladia irregularis Harv.

• Region

  North America

• Country

  United States of America

• State/Province

  Florida

• County/Municipio

  Monroe Co.

• City/Township

  Key West

• Coordinates

  24.5591, -81.7816

• Coordinate Uncertainty (m)

  3481.57

• Georeferencing Method

  Georeferencing Quick Reference Guide, Version 2012. Located coordinates of geogr. center of Key West. Measured from coord. to farthest extent of the key to find linear extent (3470 m). Used MaNIS Georef. Calculator to find uncertainty (Bounded Area).

• Geodetic Datum

  WGS84

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

Cordylecladia ? irregularis; Harv. Her, Bor.-Am. ś: 156. pi*
18 S. 185?T
Frond filiform, more or less hollow, setaceous, rigid, densely
tufted, irregularly branched, somewhat pinnate; branches few, opposite or
secund, widely spreading, simple, obtuse.
Hab. Key West, Prof; Tuomey, (4) Dr. Blodgett, (45) W. H. H.
(55) (v. v.)
Frond in densely matted tufts, rising from fibres? two to three
inches high, as thick as hog's bristle, rigid, mostly hollow in the cen-
tre, very irregularly branched. Some specimens are pretty regularly pin-
nate, or sub-bi-pinnate, the pinnae mostly opposite; others (and these
are more common) are set with numerous, lateral, secund branohes, which
occasionally bear a seoond series of secund branchlets; and some fronds
have botji kinds of branching in different parts. All the branches are
patent, of unequal lengths. Colour a dark reddish brown, turning green
in fresh water, or in decay. 4. cross-section shows a single row of ob-
long, coloured, peripheric cells, within which are several rows of irre-
gularly polygonal partially coloured cells, gradually of larger size to-
wards the centre of the axis, where there is an irregular cavity ( or de-
ficiency of cells) of greater or less diameter. Substance rigid. No
fructification seen; but some of the tips of the branches are slightly ex-
panded, as if designed to contain tetraspores. In drying it scarcely ad-
heres to paper.
I am very doubtful of the generic relation of this plant, but
can think of no more convenient place to put it, the fruit being unknown,
than in tbis genus.
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