Digenea simplex (Wulfen) C.Agardh

Resendiz, María Luisa Núñez, Dreckmann, Kurt M., Sentíes, Abel, Wynne, Michael J. & Tejera, Hilda León, 2019, Marine red algae (Rhodophyta) of economic use in the algal drifts from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Phytotaxa 387 (3), pp. 219-240 : 230

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.387.3.3

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Digenea simplex (Wulfen) C.Agardh
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Digenea simplex (Wulfen) C.Agardh

Thallus fleshy or mucilaginous, red or pink, or sometimes bleached yellowish, 15–26 cm long, axes nearly cylindrical in cross section, 240–500 μm in diameter. Main axes branching dichotomously; branches completely covered by numerous thin hair-like polysiphonous ramulli, with 5 rows of irregular cells, 5–12 μm in diameter ( Fig. 13 View FIGURES 6–16. 6 ). Polysiphonous organization, main axes with 9 pericentral cells, 30–40 μm in diameter ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 6–16. 6 ). Medulla with 18–20 layers of rounded cells, 35–50 μm x 18–25 μm in diameter. Cortex with one layer of spherical cells, 9–14 μm in diameter ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 6–16. 6 ).

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