Sargassum, C. AGARDH IN

Santiañez, Wilfred John E., Lastimoso, John Michael L., Hoshino, Masakazu, Villafuerte, Brix Nester Q., Kogame, Kazuhiro & Gavino C. Trono, Jr, 2023, Molecular-assisted taxonomic study on the Sargassum C. Agardh (Fucales, Phaeophyceae) in northwestern Luzon, Philippines, Cryptogamie, Algologie 20 (7), pp. 127-142 : 136

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/cryptogamie-algologie2023v44a7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10027629

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F04E87AD-FFB9-121B-FF15-FF70FAB72639

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Plazi

scientific name

Sargassum
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KEY TO THE CONFIRMED SPECIES OF SARGASSUM C. AGARDH View in CoL IN NORTHWESTERN LUZON, PHILIPPINES

1. Thallus typically with stoloniferous holdfasts; branches terete, usually with numerous branched protuberances; vesicles small, numerous, spherical to ovoid ................................................... Sargassum polycystum C.Agardh

— Thallus without stoloniferous holdfasts; branches smooth, terete, slightly compressed, to compressed; vesicles large, globose to obovoid, ribbed, sometimes mucronated ........................................................................... 2

2. Branches smooth and compressed; blades linear-lanceolate to linear oblanceolate, distinctly serrate-dentate; vesicles large, ovoid to obovoid, to 7 mm long ............................... Sargassum aquifolium (Turner) C.Agardh

— Branches smooth, terete to slightly compressed; blades highly variable in shape, margins serrate to biserrate, ‘duplicated’ especially towards the apices, duplication sometimes appearing turbinarioid; vesicles globose, to 5.4 mm in diameter ......................................................................... Sargassum ilicifolium (Turner) C.Agardh

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