Cladocephalus scoparius M.Howe

  • Filed As

    Udoteaceae
    Cladocephalus scoparius M.Howe ( isotype )

  • Collector(s)

    M. A. Howe 4079, 24 Feb 1905

  • Location

    Bahamas. Exuma. Georgetown. in a tidal pond.

  • Habitat

    In 3-10 dm of w. l. t. (water low tide [written on the label]). "...in a tidal pond" (Howe, 1905, original publication). Rare and local in the Bahama Islands (Howe, 1905, original publication). "...on sandy or muddy bottom..." (Howe, 1905, original publication).

  • Description

    "Very dark green or nigrescent when living (Howe's handwritten on the label), commonly becoming yellowish-brown, substramineous, or olivaceous on drying, solitary or gregarious, 5-14 cm high; rhizoids forming a somewhat bulbous mass: stipe 2-10 cm high, 3-7 mm thick, subcylindrical or somewhat complanate, often alate or canaliculate above, simple or occasionally once or twice dichotomous, the branches sometimes again connate: capitulum scopiform, varying in outline from elongate-fusiform or elongate-ellipsoid to obovoid or subspherical, often somewhat flattened, 3-8 cm long; branches subcylindrical or complanate, 0.3-2 mm broad, frequently connate at points of casual contact, now and then subdenticulate near apices: filaments more or less fuscous in the older parts, sometimes bright-green in the younger; filaments of the cortex labyrinthine, lightly torulose when young...".

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 00887509

    Occurrence ID: c86d4e7d-21bd-4cf1-8417-91e7bed29b54

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  • Region

    West Indies

  • Country

    Bahamas

  • State/Province

    Exuma

  • Locality

    Georgetown. in a tidal pond

  • Coordinates

    23.5103, -75.7774

  • Coordinate Uncertainty (m)

    1871.57

  • Georeferencing Method

    Georeferencing Quick Reference Guide, Version 2012. Located coordinates of midpt Georgetown shore. Measured from coord. to farthest extent of the shore to find linear ext. (1860 m). Used MaNIS Georef. Calculator to find uncertainty.

  • Geodetic Datum

    WGS84

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COLLECTED IN A TIDAL POND, GEORGETOWN, GREAT EXUMA, BAHAMAS,

by Marshall A. Howe, February 24, 1905

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