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A biological study of Durvillaea antarctica (Chamisso) Hariot and D ...

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Regeneration:<br />

Nei ther species in NevI Zeal<strong>and</strong> regenerates nevI laminae from<br />

broken or severed stipes. When stipes <strong>of</strong> 40 D. ~iZlana <strong>and</strong> 65 D,<br />

<strong>antarctica</strong> plants were severed halfway along their length,i:he result<br />

was that all remaining <strong>and</strong> holdfast tissue rotted away ,,,ithin<br />

12 to 16 months. D, 'WiUana rotted away more elm'1ly than D.<br />

anta:t>ctica. In D .. 1.JillaYIa the meristoderm <strong>and</strong> cortex usually infolded<br />

over the medulla to fonn a cup-shaped depression (Hay <strong>and</strong> South 1977),<br />

This f'requ.ently ha.rboured Lysianassid a':l1Iphipods which ate a\

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