Sargassum bacciferum (W.B.Turner) C.Agardh

• Region

  Unknown

• Coordinates

  23.83, -65.87

• Distribution

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Josephine E. Tilden. American Algae.
607. Galaxaura infirma Kjellm. Om. Floridé-Slàgtet Galaxaura. 81. 1900.
Frutescent; frond loose, forked, with the internodes often evidently contracted at the
base, scarcely more than 1.5 mm. wide, with close set superficial papillae, subclavate
cylindrical, rounded or often acutish at the apex, not rarely short-mucronate, 25-30
mie long, about 18 mie. wide.
On rocks at half tide.
jWaianae, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands.
J. E. T. May 1900.
Josephine E. Tilden. American Algae.
008. Sargassum bacciferum (Turn.) Ag. Sp. Alg. 1: 6. 1821.
Stem filiform, smooth; leaves linear-lanceolate, attenuate, sharply serrate, ribbed, usually
destitute of glandular pores; air vessels on sub-terete stalks, spherical, tipped with
a filiform point ; receptacles axillary, forked, cylindrical, warted, unarmed.
Atlantic Ocean, Lat. 230 50', Long. 65° 52'.
Coll. Professor C. W. Hall, Feb. 1900.
“The common Gulf-weed, which grows attached in the West Indies, where it fruits,
and which is found floating and infertile in the course of the Gulf Stream and in the so-
called Sargasso sea.”—Farlow.
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