Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

OnLaminaria saccharina from Hokkaido

  • Short Communication
  • Published:
The botanical magazine = Shokubutsu-gaku-zasshi Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

During February 1973 we collected a species ofLaminaria at Koetoi, Wakkanai, Hokkaido lacking mucilage ducts in the stipe and not having a conspicuous median fascia. These two features are shared withL. yendoana Miyabe (Miyabein Okamura, 1936, p. 288). However, the Koetoi plants have a cuneate blade base, smooth blade margin and relatively thick haptera. These features differ fromL. yendoana which has a truncate-cordate blade base, undulate blade margin and very fine haptera. Our specimens were collected from a locality known to be inhabited byL. cichorioides Miyabe. However, theL. cichorioides species has mucilage ducts in the stipe, a truncatecordate blade base and a crispate blade margin, all of which distinguish this species fromL. saccharina. Of those taxa described from the northwest Pacific,Laminaria saccharina f.linearis J. Agardhsensu Tokida, 1954 is the most similar to the Koetoi plants.

The purpose of the present report is to describeL. saccharina f.linearis from Koetoi and discuss its relationship to plants of the same taxon found elsewhere.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Druehl, L.D. 1968. Taxonomy and distribution of northeast pacific species ofLaminaria. Can. J. Bot.46: 539–547.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Okamura, K. 1936. Nippon Kaisô-shi. Uchida Rokakuho. Tokyo. (in Japanese)

    Google Scholar 

  • Setchell, W.A. andN.L. Gardner. 1925. The marine algae of the pacific coast of North America. Part III. Melanophyceae. Univ. Calif. (Berkeley) Publ. Bot.8: 383–898.

    Google Scholar 

  • Taylor, W.R. 1957. Marine Algae of the Northeastern Coast of North America. The Univ. Michigan Press, Michigan.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tokida, J. 1932. The marine algae from Robben Island (Kaihyo-To) Saghalien. Bull. School of Fish. Hokkaido Imp. Univ.2: 1–34.

    Google Scholar 

  • — 1954. The marine algae of Southern Saghalien. Mem. Fac. Fish., Hokkaido Univ.2: 1–264.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wilce, R.T. 1965. Studies in the genusLaminaria. A revision of the North Atlantic species of the Simplices section ofLaminaria. Proc. Fifth Mar. Biol. Symp. Bot. Gothoburgensia3: 247–256.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Author notes

  1. Louis D. Druehl

    Present address: Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Algological Research, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, 051, Muroran

    Louis D. Druehl & Takashi Kaneko

  2. Hokkaido Wakkanai Fisheries Experimental Station, Hôrai-4, 097, Wakkanai

    Louis D. Druehl & Takashi Kaneko

Authors
  1. Louis D. Druehl
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Takashi Kaneko
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Druehl, L.D., Kaneko, T. OnLaminaria saccharina from Hokkaido. Bot Mag Tokyo 86, 323–327 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02488789

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02488789

Keywords

Search

Navigation