Boodlea struveoides M.Howe

• Region

  North America

• Country

  Bermuda

• Locality

  Harrington Sound, on rocks in 3 dm. of water

• Coordinates

  32.3338, -64.7251

• Coordinate Uncertainty (m)

  2031.57

• Georeferencing Method

  Georeferencing Quick Reference Guide, Version 2012. Located coordinates on shore closest to approx. geogr. center of Harrington Sound. Measured from coord. to farthest extent of the sound = linear extent (2020 m). Input info into MaNIS Georef. Calc. to find uncert. radius.

• Geodetic Datum

  WGS84

• Distribution

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Boodlea struveoides M. A. Howe, sp. nov. Thallus weakly stipitate, the
stipe simple or dichotomous, 5-30 mm. (1-4 cells) long, 200-450 ,® in diameter,
its cells 4 40' times as long as broad; branches variously disposed, often
mostly opposite and developing in a single plane, their branchlets cohering
frequently by tentacula and forming a flat uniaxial frond often 1 cm. long
and wide (4?16 meshes wide), these fronds, in turn, cohering with others of
their kind and forming dense spongy confervoid cushions 2-4 cm. in diameter:
or', branches subpalmate, palmately subdistichous, subverticillate, or emerging
irregularly and in all directions; cells of the main axes 150-320 ­jl in diameter,
mostly 2-5 times as long as broad, becoming scarcely longer than broad above;
branches and branchlets numerous, patent or divaricate, the ultimate cells 60-
80 fi in diameter, 2-4 times as long as broad, often recurved.

iOn rocks in about 3 dm. of water, Harrington Sound (type, Eowe 131,
in herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).

This species is somewhat intermediate between Boodlea siamensis Reinb.
and Struvea anastomosans (Harv.) Piccon^, but can not be accurately identi-
fied with either. Its nearest relatives are doubtless the East Indian B.
siamensis Reinb. and B. paradoxa Reinb., from both of which it apparently
differs in the development of a weak stipe (sometimes as much as 3 cm. long)
and in the commonly more Struvea-like development of its upper parts. It is
also more rigid and somewhat coarser in all its parts than B. siamensis, a type
duplicate of which has been compared with it. The frequent irregular develop-
ment of the branches in all planes makes the plant a Boodlea rather than a
Struvea. Of the Bermudian algae, this plant is perhaps most likely to be
confused with small pulvinate Cladophoras or with Cladophoropsis mem-
branacea, but examination with a hand-lens or attempts to disentangle the
mats disclose the cohesions of the branchlets and the net-like meshes of the
Boodlea. Apparently endemic.

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Collected in the Bermuda Islands
by Marshall A. Howe, June 5 - July 7, 1900

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