Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse MuseumWest, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1992 - Natural history |
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... branches arising from a short ( < 20 mm ) main stem . The main branches have few or no further lateral branches , and are sinuous or tortuous in appear- ance . The main stem and lowermost portions of the branches are devoid of polyps ...
... branches arising from a short ( < 20 mm ) main stem . The main branches have few or no further lateral branches , and are sinuous or tortuous in appear- ance . The main stem and lowermost portions of the branches are devoid of polyps ...
Page 281
... branches arising from the nodes . Colonies are bushy , with the branches often arising in whorls . Spicules of the polyps are mainly spindles and some flattened rods , with surfaces often finely denticulated . A genus of ten or more ...
... branches arising from the nodes . Colonies are bushy , with the branches often arising in whorls . Spicules of the polyps are mainly spindles and some flattened rods , with surfaces often finely denticulated . A genus of ten or more ...
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... branches arising from the internodes . Branching is bushy or bottlebrush - like , multiplanar . Sclerites are scales ... branches , usually arising perpendicular to axes of branches . Polyps are 1,0-1,2 mm long and 0,5 mm wide , clavate ...
... branches arising from the internodes . Branching is bushy or bottlebrush - like , multiplanar . Sclerites are scales ... branches , usually arising perpendicular to axes of branches . Polyps are 1,0-1,2 mm long and 0,5 mm wide , clavate ...
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Acabaria rubra Acanthogorgia Acanthomuricea Algoa Bay Anastomosis Anthocodiae Axis composed balloon clubs Bayer branches arising calyces calyx Calyx sclerites Cape Agulhas capensis Simpson capstans Chathamisis Chrysogorgia clavate coarsely tuberculate Coenenchymal sclerites Colonies examined range Colony colour cortex cylindrical depth Williams Description Colonies examined Diagnosis Colonies dichotomously branched dredge East London eastern Cape Province Ellisellidae elongate entire colony Eunicella albicans Eunicella papillosa False Bay Family G. C. Williams genera genus gorgonians Gorgoniidae Gray holdfast holotype Homophyton verrucosum Indo-Pacific internodes Junceella Kölliker Kükenthal Leptogorgia Leptogorgia gilchristi longitudinal material medulla monomorphic multiplanar non-spicular northern Natal Pieter Faure survey pinnate planar Polyps Polyps monomorphic present work represents R.V. Meiring Naude Radicipes S.S. Pieter Faure Scale bar Scanning electron micrographs SCUBA South Africa southern Africa sparsely specimens Stiasny text-fig Tixier-Durivault Transkei tuberculated spindles Type locality Type species unbranched Verrill W. R. Liltved whorls Williams in press Wright & Studer Wrightella