Chaetomorpha californica Collins

• Region

  North America

• Country

  United States of America

• State/Province

  California

• County/Municipio

  San Diego Co.

• Locality

  La Jolla, growing on sand, etc., in shallow tide pools near high water mark

• Coordinates

  32.8716, -117.254

• Coordinate Uncertainty (m)

  7641.57

• Georeferencing Method

  Georeferencing Quick Reference Guide, Version 2012. Located coordinates of mdpt of La Jolla shore by Measured btw center of endpts; 1/2ing dist., choosing closest coord. on shore. Meas. from coord.- farthest extent of shore =linear extent (7630 m). Input info into MaNIS Georef. Calc. = uncert. rad.

• Geodetic Datum

  WGS84

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

Phycotheca Boreali-Americana. Collins, Holden, and SetdielL
664. Ghaetomorpha Californica Collins ms.
Growing on sand, etc., in shallow tide pools near high water mark,
La Jolla, San Diego County, California, May, 1898.
MRS. E. SNYDER.
Filaments attached, erect, np to 2 dm. long, of uniform diameter
throughout, not contracted at the nodes ; diameter .02-.04 mm., cells once
to twice as long as broad, rarely three or four times as long; basal cell
usually colorless, slightly broadening below into a colorless disk of
attachment.
In view of the large number of described species of Chaetomorpha,
many known only from the descriptions, it may seem rash to add one more;
but the plant now in question is much more slender than any other known
attached erect species ; an examination of a large suite of specimens shows
that while a considerable range of size can be seen in the same tuft, in no
ca«e does the diameter exceed .04 mm., while the average is .08 mm.)
about half the sice of the smallest heretofore known.
F. S. C.
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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