University Herbarium, UC Berkeley: Indian Ocean Catalogue

IOC entry for Ganonema farinosum

Ganonema Fan & Wang

Note: Abbott (1984) pointed out that the carpogonial character by which Ganonema was separated from Liagora was inconstant. Huisman & Kraft (1994: 83–84) provided additional vegetative and reproductive characters by which the genus can be recognized.

Ganonema farinosum (Lamouroux) Fan & Wang

Liagora farinosa Lamouroux, 1816: 240 (type locality: Suez, Egypt).—Børgesen, 1942b: 36–37.— Børgesen, 1949a: 33–35.— Børgesen, 1951: 31–32.— Levring, 1953: 504.— Varma, 1959: 249.— V. May, 1965: 358.— Womersley, 1965b: 478–480, figs. 59–62, pl. 6: fig. 2.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 17.— Jaasund, 1976: 63, fig. 126.— Jaasund, 1977c: 416.— Lawson, 1980: 55.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [27].— Islam & Aziz, 1987: 215.— Desikachary, V. Krishnamurthy, & M. Balakrishnan, 1990: 136–137.— Womersley, 1994: 94–95.

Ganonema farinosum (Lamouroux) Fan & Wang, 1974: 492 (`farinosa').

Taxonomic synonyms:

Liagora elongata Zanardini, 1851: 35–36 (type locality: Red Sea).—De Toni, 1897: 94–95.— Piccone, 1901: 123.— Jadin, 1935: 162.— Lawson, 1980: 55.

Liagora cheyneana Harvey, 1855b: 552–553 (`cheyniana') (type locality: Cape Riche, Western Australia).—Harvey, 1860b: pl. CLXII.— Harvey, 1863: xxxviii.— J. Agardh, 1876: 515–516.— Sonder, 1880: 25.— J. Agardh, 1896: 87, 98, 105.— De Toni, 1897: 94.— Lucas, 1909: 21.

* Galaxaura cliftonii Harvey, 1863: xxxviii, pl. CCLXXV (`cliftoni') (lectotype locality: Fremantle, Western Australia fide Levring, 1953: 504 and Womersley, 1965b: 478).

Liagora cliftonii (Harvey) J. Agardh, 1876: 515.—Sonder, 1880: 25.— J. Agardh, 1896: 104.— De Toni, 1897: 93.— Lucas, 1909: 21.

* Liagora crassa Dickie, 1874b: 195 (type locality: Mauritius).—De Toni, 1897: 98.

* Liagora lurida Dickie, 1874b: 195 (type locality: Mauritius).—De Toni, 1897: 98.— Børgesen, 1942b: 40–41, fig. 20, pl. I: fig. 1.

Liagora farinosa Lamouroux forma lurida (Dickie) Børgesen, 1949a: 34.

Misapplied name (fide Børgesen, 1949a: 34):

Liagora pulverulenta.—Dickie, 1874b: 195.

INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Andaman Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, India, Mauritius, Réunion, Somalia, Tanzania.

Note: Liagora cheyneana, L. crassa, L. elongata, and L. lurida are included as synonyms on the authority of Howe (1920: 554), Galaxaura cliftonii on the authority of Levring (1953: 504).