Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Basionym: Derbesia attenuata Dawson, 1954d: 390, figs. 9a,b Type locality: Nha Trang Bay, Vietnam. Note: The gametophyte of Derbesia attenuata is not known. According to Calderón & Schnetter (1991: 293), this species may be referable to their new genus, Pseudoderbesia (Silva et al. 1996: 809). Derbesia attenuata Daws. D. 22359, 22,U1, epiphytic on other algae, Tortuga Bay. Although this quite distinctive minute plant has been observed repeatedly during the past decade across the tropical Pacific, fertile material has not yet been encountered (Dawson, 1963).

Origin: Native

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

Distribution: Galapagos I.: Tortuga Bay (Dawson, 1963). Santa Cruz (Silva, 1966). Indian Ocean Islands, South-east Asia, Asia, Pacific Islands, America: El Salvador, Panama. Galapagos Islands (Guiry & Guiry, 2021).

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