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Freshwater algae of Southern Africa. II. Triplastrum spinulosum from the Transvaal

M. Isabella Claassen
Bothalia | Vol 12, No 2 | a1403 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/abc.v12i2.1403 | © 1977 M. Isabella Claassen | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 11 November 1977 | Published: 11 November 1977

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M. Isabella Claassen, Department of Botany, University of Pretoria, South Africa

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The presence of Triplastrum spinulosum (Kisselev) Gauthier-Lievre (Desmidiaceae) in South Africa is reported for the first time. The characters of T. spinulosum varieties spinulosum, indicum (Iyengar & Ramanathan) Gauthier-Lievre and  africanum Gauthier-Lievre were found to be exhibited by specimens collected at Ottosdal in the south-western Transvaal. The differences among specimens of the populations studied are ascribed to variation within one variable species and therefore the varieties  indicum and  africanum are relegated to synonymy.


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