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The present communication deals with morphological features of a new fresh water species of the genus Acrochaetium Naëg. (A. sarmaii sp. nov.). The occurrence of Compsopogon iyengarii is also recorded for the first time from a locality in North India.
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Khan, M. On two fresh water red algae from Dehradun. Hydrobiologia 35, 249–253 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00181730
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