First records of two Padina species (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) from the Syrian coast (eastern Mediterranean)

Table 1 Comparing of the characteristics of five species of the Mediterranean Padina

	Height (cm)	Color	Surface	Hair lines		Sporangial sori		Holdfast		Cell layers	Indusium	References
				Position	Arrangemant	Position	Arrangemant	Length (mm)	Breadth (mm)
P. tetrastromatica	8-16	Greenish brown	Lightly calcified	On both surfaces	Alternate	On both surfaces	Successive	7	4	4	Absent	(Gaillard 1967)
P. pavonica	6	Yellowish brown	Heavily calcified	On both surfaces	Alternate	On both surfaces	Alternate	7-20	5-15	3-4	Present	(Taylor, 1960)
P. pavonicoides	-	-	-	On both surfaces	Alternate	Lower surface	Successive	-	-	2-3	Present	(Ni-Ni-Win et al. 2011
P. boryana	7	Yellowish brown	Moderately calcified on the lower surface and lightly calcified on the upper surface	upper surface	successive	Upper surface	Successive	7	4	2	Absent	(this study)
P. ditristromatica	5-10	Yellowish or greenish	Heavily calcified	On both surfaces	Alternate	Lower surface	Successive	7-10	5-7	2-3	Present	(this study)

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