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

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49<br />

Table 3.1<br />

Differences between DurviZZaea spp.<br />

Features<br />

Species<br />

D. D. D. D.<br />

potatorum antardtica wiZZana chathamida<br />

Holdfast excavated <strong>and</strong><br />

holey<br />

,;<br />

,;<br />

Stipe with stipitate<br />

lateral blades<br />

x<br />

,;<br />

Stipe longer than 0.5 m<br />

<strong>and</strong> thicker than 60 mm<br />

at base<br />

x<br />

,;<br />

Stipe sometimes branched<br />

distally as in Fig. 5.lla~b<br />

x<br />

,;<br />

x<br />

stipe invariably with<br />

grooves<br />

,;<br />

x ,;<br />

stipe <strong>of</strong>ten recessed into<br />

hold fast<br />

x<br />

,;<br />

x ,;<br />

Cortical cells <strong>of</strong> stipe<br />

greatly elongated radially<br />

?<br />

,;<br />

x<br />

x<br />

Walls <strong>of</strong> cortical cells <strong>and</strong><br />

hyphae in stipe thickly<br />

gelatinized<br />

x<br />

,;<br />

x<br />

x<br />

Lamina containing honeycomb<br />

tissue: buoyan t<br />

x<br />

x<br />

x<br />

Lamina with stipitate<br />

lateral blades<br />

,;<br />

x<br />

,; x<br />

Margins <strong>of</strong> lamina<br />

different ia ted<br />

,;<br />

x<br />

,; ,;<br />

Palm region <strong>of</strong> lamina with<br />

fine cracks in broken<br />

concentric rings<br />

x<br />

,;<br />

x ,;<br />

Medulla with vacuole-like<br />

spaces <strong>and</strong> separated into<br />

two by a central zone<br />

<strong>of</strong> loosely interweaving,<br />

much branched hyphae<br />

x<br />

,;<br />

x<br />

Walls <strong>of</strong> cortical cells <strong>and</strong><br />

hyphae in lamina thickly<br />

gelatinized<br />

x<br />

,;<br />

x<br />

x<br />

Conceptacle wall invariably<br />

smooth rarely if ever<br />

folded<br />

,;<br />

x<br />

,; ,;<br />

Oogonia borne predominantly<br />

parietally<br />

Growing above MLWS<br />

Distribution circumpolar<br />

?<br />

x<br />

x<br />

,;<br />

,;<br />

,; ,;<br />

x<br />

x<br />

x<br />

x

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