Flabellum Lesson, 1831
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/703284BE-3C20-E13E-BD1D-DB8976C18B88 |
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Flabellum Lesson, 1831 |
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Diagnosis.
Corallum solitary; attached or free. Corallum shaped in a variety of ways, including ceratoid, campanulate, bowl-shaped, discoidal, or compressed-flabellate. Transverse division lacking. Base and lower pedicel not reinforced with stereome. Wall epithecal, usually porcelaneous, without costae. Pali, dissepiments, and synapticulae absent. Columella rudimentary to absent, when present a simple fusion of lower axial margin of larger septa. Exclusively azooxanthellate.
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