Marlin Harms, California USA, California, USA
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Smithora naiadum (C.L.Anderson) Hollenberg, 1959
904 / 5.000
A red alga in the genus Smithora. The genus name "Smithora" was given in honor of Gilbert Morgan Smith, a leading American botanist and phycologist and professor of botany at Stanford University.
Thalli are small, thin, roundish to oblong, purplish-pink leaves up to 5 cm tall. They grow at cushion-like bases along the edges of seagrass leaves. Smithora naiadum will turn much of the green surf grass Phyllospadix sp. and Zostera sp. to a deep maroon by mid-summer.
Habitat: This red alga is epiphytic on seagrasses in the lower intertidal and upper subtidal regions.
It is not yet known whether the epiphyte Smithora naiadum has negative effects on the host plant by increasing shading from sunlight.
Similar taxa: Porphyra gardneri occurs on the edges of Laminaria leaves.
Synonymised names
Membranella nitens Hollenberg & I.A.Abbott, 1968 · unaccepted (synonym)
Porphyra naiadum C.L.Anderson, 1892 · unaccepted
Smithora naiadum var. australis E.Y.Dawson, 1953 · unaccepted (synonym)
Direct children (1)
Variety Smithora naiadum var. australis E.Y.Dawson, 1953 accepted as Smithora naiadum (C.L.Anderson) Hollenberg, 1959 (synonym)
904 / 5.000
A red alga in the genus Smithora. The genus name "Smithora" was given in honor of Gilbert Morgan Smith, a leading American botanist and phycologist and professor of botany at Stanford University.
Thalli are small, thin, roundish to oblong, purplish-pink leaves up to 5 cm tall. They grow at cushion-like bases along the edges of seagrass leaves. Smithora naiadum will turn much of the green surf grass Phyllospadix sp. and Zostera sp. to a deep maroon by mid-summer.
Habitat: This red alga is epiphytic on seagrasses in the lower intertidal and upper subtidal regions.
It is not yet known whether the epiphyte Smithora naiadum has negative effects on the host plant by increasing shading from sunlight.
Similar taxa: Porphyra gardneri occurs on the edges of Laminaria leaves.
Synonymised names
Membranella nitens Hollenberg & I.A.Abbott, 1968 · unaccepted (synonym)
Porphyra naiadum C.L.Anderson, 1892 · unaccepted
Smithora naiadum var. australis E.Y.Dawson, 1953 · unaccepted (synonym)
Direct children (1)
Variety Smithora naiadum var. australis E.Y.Dawson, 1953 accepted as Smithora naiadum (C.L.Anderson) Hollenberg, 1959 (synonym)
