UC specimens and range limits for Botryocladia neushulii

• Blue markers: specimen records
• Yellow marker: type locality, if present
• Red markers: endpoints of range from literature

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Botryocladia Kylin 1931

Thalli simple or branched, with solid, cylindrical, monopodial axes bearing 1 or more erect saccate branches. Saccate branches spherical, pyriform, or elongate, often 10-20 times diam. of bearing branch or stipe, with wall of large cells adjoining mucus-filled cavity and smaller cells toward surface. Gland cells single or clustered, projecting into cavity. Tetrasporangia scattered in cortex, cruciately divided. Spermatangia in surface areas on saccate branches; cystocarps ostiolate, projecting outwardly and inwardly.

Botryocladia neushulii Daws.

Dawson 1958: 75.

Thalli mostly 8-20(32) cm tall, 1 to many erect axes arising from extensive basal disks; erect axes 1.5-2 mm diam., distantly irregularly branched, provided above with dark-red, sparse, small, multifarious, saccate vesicles, the lower 6-7 cm of axis usually bare; vesicles ovoid to long-ellipsoidal, 2-3(5) mm long, on short pedicels, usually solitary; gland cells usually solitary, but often with 1 or more branch cells from basal cell; reproduction as for genus.

Occasional, on subtidal rocks (7-15 m), Santa Barbara, Channel Is., and La Jolla (type locality), Calif. to Bahia San Quintin, Baja Calif.

Excerpt from Abbott, I. A., & Hollenberg, G. J. (1976). Marine algae of California. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California. xii [xiii] + 827 pp., 701 figs.