Morphology and molecular phylogeny of the marine algal order Gelidiales (Rhodophyta) from New South Wales, including Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands

We especially thank Drs Gerald Kraft, Wendy Nelson and Max Hommersand, who supplied many specimens for study. Dr Karla McDermid provided the Latin diagnoses for the three new species and Lesley Elkan kindly drew the botanical illustrations. Fellow diving partners were Dr John Huisman, Chris O’Brien, Peter Richards and David Hardin. This project was funded by an Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS), a Visiting Research Fellowship to DWF from the Friends of the Gardens (Sydney), and USA National Science Foundation Grant DEB-9726170. We thank Pinetrees Lodge for help on the Lord Howe Island expedition, and Karlene Christian and Jack Marges of Bounty Divers on Norfolk Island. Mr Nick Yee accompanied us on many of the collecting expeditions and assisted with the generation of sequence data at RBGS and his help was greatly appreciated.

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