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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... holdfast or embedded in soft sub- strata by root - like projections of the holdfast , and have an internal medulla or axis distinct from the cortex or outer coenenchyme . The composition and struc- ture of this axial component varies ...
... holdfast or embedded in soft sub- strata by root - like projections of the holdfast , and have an internal medulla or axis distinct from the cortex or outer coenenchyme . The composition and struc- ture of this axial component varies ...
Page 252
... Holdfast is root - like ( forms living in soft substrata ) or disc - like ( forms attached to hard objects ) . Twelve genera of cosmopolitan distribution ( many from great depth ) . At least five genera in southern Africa . Genus ...
... Holdfast is root - like ( forms living in soft substrata ) or disc - like ( forms attached to hard objects ) . Twelve genera of cosmopolitan distribution ( many from great depth ) . At least five genera in southern Africa . Genus ...
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... holdfast that are dichotomously branched . Simpsonella squamifera , on the other hand , possesses scalloped plates and coarsely tuberculated spindles , and small disc - like holdfasts ; both these features are characteristic of the ...
... holdfast that are dichotomously branched . Simpsonella squamifera , on the other hand , possesses scalloped plates and coarsely tuberculated spindles , and small disc - like holdfasts ; both these features are characteristic of the ...
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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