Laurencia nana (C.Agardh) Grev.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Rhodomelaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Densely cespitose and intricate, rose-red to garnet-brown, mostly 1 to 2 cm. high, fragile, often innovating from broken ends, dichotomous or subdichotomous, the branches more or less concrescent or coherent; main segments 0.15-0.45 mm. in diameter; ultimate branches cylindric or subcylindric, mostly 0.1 - 0.35 mm. broad at truncate apex; surface of cortex smooth or lightly crenulatemammillate, showing numerous or occasional rhizoidal haptera, epidermal cells orbicular-hexagonal and mostly 25-45 µ broad in surface view, firm-walled; tetrasporic branches similar to the sterile or slightly enlarged.
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Distribution
On corals, corallines, and sea-fans, near low-water mark, Mariguana (Howe 5393 type), Shroud's Cay (Exuma Chain), and Great Ragged Island.
Exuma Bahamas South America| Ragged Island Bahamas South America|