New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

---

Notes and Comments: COMPSOPOGON IN NEW ZEALAND

V. J. Chapman and H. Cameron

Department of Botany, University of Auckland

Abstract Last year a research student, Mr C. F. Hill, of the University of Auckland Botany Department, brought in a mat of bluish green threads which had been caught up with other material on the screens of Ohakuri hydro-electric dam. Microscopic examination showed that these threads were a species of the freshwater red-algal genus Compsopogon growing epiphytically upon Myriophyllum and Potamogeton. Subsequently further material of the same alga was found growing on stones at the outlet of the Meremere power station cooling water on the Waikato River, where the temperature of the water feels appreciably higher than in ths river itself

N.Z. Jl Bot. 5: 548-52. (Received for publication 1 June 1967)

PDF file of entire paper: medium quality (588K); (scanned from paper original: notes about this process)

---

This year's abstracts | Journal home page | All abstracts | Publishing home page