Language: Chinese with scientific nomenclature and bilingual figure captions and key in English and Chinese
Describes 26 genera and 117 species (not including variants) of the red alga family Rhodomelaceae, of which 27 species are taxa new to China.
Summary in Chinese:
本 书较系统全面地总结了我国海产红藻仙菜目松节藻科海藻分类学研究的成果,记述了1科26属117种(不包括变种),其中有27种(包括新变种)为我国发现 的新的分类单元。对每个分类单元均以我国的标本作出科学而祥细的描述,并附有精美的特征图,每种都有形态和构造特征描述、生态习性,产地和分布较祥细的论 述,内有插图131幅,图版13面。本书是目前国内较全面论述海产红藻松节藻科的专著。