Dictyota falklandica sp. nov. (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) from the Falkland Islands and southernmost South America

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Küpper, Frithjof C., Peters, Akira F., Kytinou, Eleni, Asensi, Aldo O., Vieira, Christophe, Macaya, Erasmo C., De Clerck, Olivier (2019): Dictyota falklandica sp. nov. (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) from the Falkland Islands and southernmost South America. Phycologia 58 (6): 640-647, DOI: 10.1080/00318884.2019.1648990, URL: doi.org/10.1080/00318884.2019.1648990 ABSTRACT Surveys of the seaweed flora of the Falkland Islands and of Tierra del Fuego revealed the presence of a new species of brown alga.

Dictyota falklandica sp. nov. inhabits the shallow rocky infralittoral in sheltered localities and the lower intertidal in more exposed sites. Dictyota falklandica has a regular to irregular habit of dichotomously branched blades, forming erect thalli composed of a single-layered cortex and medulla, with margins in the apical parts dotted with dormant apical cells. Sporangia occur in irregular groups or longitudinal lines on the thallus surface.