
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ducker, SC 
A1  - Williams, WT 
A1  - Lance, GN 
T1  - Numerical classification of the Pacific forms of <I>Chlorodesmis</I> (Chlorophyta)
JF  - Australian Journal of Botany
JO  - Aust. J. Bot.
Y1  - 1965
VL  - 13
IS  - 3
SP  - 489
EP  - 499
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/BT9650489 
N2  - The boundaries of the green algal genus Chlorodesmis are ill defined, and the reported species appear to overlap widely. Fourreen specimens of the large-celled (Pacific) forms have been subjected to critical examination; the specimens had previously been ascribed to three genera and eight species. Six characters (one qualitative, three 3-state, and two numerical) have been used; the numerical characters, for which measures of variation are available, have been subjected to a conventional statistical examination, and all six characters have been used in an analysis of the data by means of the mixed-data classificatory programme MULTIST on the Control Data 3600 at Canberra. The results strongly suggest that the specimens are referable to a single genus with only four species: C. caespitosa J. Agardh, C. comosa Harvey &amp; Bailey, C. major Zanardini, and C. bulbosa (Womersley) Ducker. 
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