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MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS OF CERAMIUM AND CENTROCERAS (CERAMIACEAE, RHODOPHYTA) FROM BRAZIL 1

2006; Wiley; Volume: 42; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1529-8817.2006.00237.x

1529-8817

Maria Beatriz Barbosa de Barros Barreto, Lynne McIvor, Christine A. Maggs, Paulo Cavalcanti Gomes Ferreira,

Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions

Morphological investigations identified 11 Ceramium Roth species, of the 18 previously reported from Brazil. Phylogenetic analyses of sequences of the chloroplast‐encoded rbc L gene confirmed the presence of seven of these species. Three other species are reported from Brazil for the first time. Ceramium affine Setchell & Gardner and C. filicula Harvey ex Womersley were previously known only from the Pacific Ocean (Mexico and Australia, respectively). A new species, C. fujianum Barros‐Barreto et Maggs sp. nov., is described here. Its general habit is similar to that of C. strictum sensu Harvey from Europe but it has one less periaxial cell than C. strictum ; its cortical filament arrangement is closest to C. deslongchampsii Chauvin ex Duby, also from Europe, but whorled tetrasporangia partially covered by cortical cells differ strikingly from the naked protruding tetrasporangia of C. deslongchampsii . Ceramium species in which each periaxial cell cuts off transversely only a single basipetal cell formed a robust clade. The genus Ceramium as represented in Brazil is not monophyletic with respect to Centroceras Kützing and Corallophila Weber‐van Bosse; Ceramium nitens , which has axial cells completely covered by rounded cortical cells formed by acropetal and basipetal filaments, did not group with any Ceramium clade but was weakly allied to a species of Corallophila . All three Brazilian Centroceras sequences were attributed to a single species, C. clavulatum .