Avrainvillea
erecta (Berkel.)
A.Gepp & E. Grepp
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Udoteaceae
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Avrainvillea
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Avrainvillea
erecta (Berkel.)
A. Gepp & E.Gepp
Characteristics
Plant
solitary, with a flexuous, stout, cylindrical stalk, buried under
mud in sea-floor; stalk upto 20 cm long or more, 2 cm thick, composed
of dichotomously branched filaments united to form the loose cylindrical
basal stalk and anchored by colourless rhizoids; frond above the cylondrical
stalk formed by the threads spread out and interwoven to form a leaf
like flabellate expansions of the fronds, shortly stipitate or sub-sesile,
brown, upto 6 cm or more wide, 8 cm or more high, reniform to subcuneate,
thick, very obsurely zonate; margin entire to fibrilose fimbriate;
filaments of fronds 27 - 42µ to 30-60µ wide very variable
in width, cylendrical, non-torulose, brown in colour.
Distribution
: Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa
Ecological
status : Intertidal zone
IUCN status : NE
Uses
: Food and animal feed
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