Ulvaceae
Ulva laetevirens Aresch.
, legitimate, scientific
[Areschoug, J.E. (1854), Phyceae novae et minus cognitae in maribus extraeuropaeis collectae. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis 1]:
370-371
[tax. nov.]
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Type locality:
Ad oram Novae Hollandiae australem in sinu Port Phillip, conchis lapidibusque adnata.
[Phillips, J. (1988), Field and anatomical studies on southern Australian species of Ulva (Ulvaceae, Chlorophyta). Australian Systematic Botany 1]:
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[secondary reference]
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Type specimen:
LECTOTYPE: Stockholm, Sweden: unnumbered
[Kraft, G.T. (2007), Marine Benthic Algae of Lord Howe Island and the Southern Great Barrier Reef, 1. Green Algae]:
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[secondary reference]
misapplication:
Ulva rigida C.Agardh
legitimate
by [Agardh, C.A. (1822), Species algarum]: 410-411
[ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011]:
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[secondary reference]
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DNA evidence appears to support this name as being synonymous with U ridgida (see Kraft et al 2010 J. Phycol. 46:1272). The photo of the type of U. laetevirens is in Phillips (1988: fig. 21b). There is some dispute regarding the type of U. laetevirens. In his account Womersley (1984) Mar. Benthic Flora I :142 states there is a lectotype in S, whereas Phillips (1988) incorrectly uses the term holotype. Womersley (1984) synonymises U. laetevirens with U. australis which would mean U. laetevirens would be a further heterotypic synonym of U. rigida.
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AMANI dist.:
New South Wales (Peronian), Victoria (Flindersian), Tasmania (Flindersian), Western Australia (Flindersian, Dampierian). World: Europe, sthn California, New Zealand.