
%0 Journal Article
%A Allender, BM 
%A Kraft, GT 
%T Te marine algae of Lord Howe Island (NSW):  The dictyotales and Cutleriales (Phaeophyta).
%J Brunonia
%D 1983/04/01
%V 6
%N 1
%P 73-130
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/BRU9830073
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BRU9830073 
%X Lord Howe Island (31°33'S., lat.; 159°05'E. long.) lies c. 600 km east of the Australian    mainland and is fringed by the world's southernmost coral reefs. It possesses a rich    marine flora which is heavily dominated by brown algae of the order Dictyotales, of    which 22 species in 11 genera occur on the island. Most species show tropical affinities,    although several have restricted occurrences on the central eastern seaboard of the    continent in addition to Lord Howe, and a few are recorded from the Kermadec Islands    some 2150 km further east. Two species (Distromium didymothrix; Pachydictyon    aegerrime) and two varieties (Stypopodium flabelliforme var. rhabdoides; Dictyota    bartayresii var. plectens) are described as new and are at present known only from the    island, while Padina boergesenii has been erected for a well known Caribbean species    also found at Lord Howe and which, following examination of type material, can no    longer be properly referred to P. gymnospora (Kuetz.) Vickers. Two new combinations    [Stypopodium australasicum (Zan.) Allender &amp; Kraft; Dilophus intermedius (Zan.)    Allender &amp; Kraft] are also made. The order Cutleriales is represented at Lord Howe by    a single newly described species, Cutleria mollis, whose abundant sporophytic    (Aglaozonia) stage is very Zonaria-like in habit. 
