Lemanea australis Atkinson

Ganesan, E. K., West, John A. & Jr, Orlando Necchi, 2018, A catalogue and bibliography of non-marine (freshwater and estuarine) Rhodophyta (red algae) of India, Phytotaxa 364 (1), pp. 1-48 : 20

Lemanea australis Atkinson

Deb et al. 1974a, p. 629; Deb et al.1986b, pp. 216–220, Pl. I, figs1–4, Pl. II, figs 5–7; Pl. III, figs 9–12; Desikachary et al. 1990, Part II A, p.113, Pl. XLII C, fig. 20 A; Singh & Gupta 2010, p. 51; Pl. l, a – c; Gupta & Singh 2012, p. 23, Pl. l, a – c.

Distribution in India: Manipur (at the confluence of Manipur and Chakpi rivers, about 1.6 km south of Shugnu; early to late winter months and disappearing completely with the onset of rains in early Spring; Sanjenthong and Serou Lai Maninig in Manipur river).

Notes: The binomial “ Lemanea australis ” is no longer used in phycological literature, since plants identified under this name are now referable to the genus Paralemanea as P. grandis (Wolle) Kumano ( Eloranta et al. 2011; Guiry & Guiry 2017; Silva 2017). Bino-Devi et al. (2012) identified L. australis specimens collected from two places i.e., Serou in Chapki river and Koirengei in Imphal river, but did not provide any important external morphological (anatomical, or reproductive) features. Although, we have not examined their specimens, we are of the opinion that these most probably would belong to L. manipurensis , judged from the place of collection, Serou in Chapki river.