Liagora valida Harv.

• Region

  North America

• Country

  United States of America

• State/Province

  Florida

• County/Municipio

  Miami-Dade Co.

• Locality

  Sand Key

• Coordinates

  25.5067, -80.1795

• Coordinate Uncertainty (m)

  1461.57

• Georeferencing Method

  Georeferencing Quick Reference Guide, Version 2012. Located coordinates of geogr. center of Sands Key. Measured from coordinates to farthest extent of the key to find linear extent (1450 m). Input information into MaNIS Georef. Calc. to find uncertainty radius (Bounded Area).

• Geodetic Datum

  WGS84

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

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Liagora yalida; Harv. Ner. BorrAm. 8: 138. pi. 18 0. 1853.
i*rond robust, repeatedly dichotomous, fastigiate, with rounded
axils, becoming when dry whitish with red-brown apices, covered with a
thin continuous, calcareous deposit; apices obtuse, not attenuated; fila-
ments of the periphery repeatedly forked, fastigiate, moniliform, their
cells elliptical* (Tab. XXXI. A.)
Hab. Sand Key, Florida, W. H. H. (v. 7.)
Fronds tufted, two to three inches long, half a line in diame-
ter, terete when fresh, becoming compressed in drying, repeatedly and
nearly regularly dichotomous from the base, the axils rounded, the apices
obtuse and divaricating, net at all attenuate. Cdcareous coat thin, but
uniformly spread, completely coating the peripheric filaments in the low-
er part of the frond, less dense near the ends: of the branohes, allowing
the tips to project beyond it, When dry, the coated portion of the
frond assumes a chalky whiteness. On removing the lime by-acid, the peri-
pheric filaments are three or (four times divided, the articulations of
e^ual diameter throughout, the lower ones sub-cylindrical, the upper suc-
cessively more elliptical and contracted at the dissepiments. Tire col-
our when recent is a pale pinky red, whieh is partially retained in the
microscopic view of the re-moistened plant.
Shis may have been previously described as a Galaxaura of the
section Kict'othoe. but I am not possessed of materials sufficieht to de-
cide the point.
Plate XXXI. A. Fig. 1. LIAGORA Valida, the natural size. Pig.
ś, portion of a branche from which the lime has been removed; fig. 3,
axial and peripheric filaments; fig. 4, a peripheric filament; fig. 5,
apex of the same; the latter figures more or less magnified.
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