Caulerpa
taxifolia
(Vahl)
C.Agardh
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Family
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Genus
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Caulerpales
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Caulerpaceae
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Caulerpa
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Caulerpa
taxifolia (Vahl)
C.Agardh
Characteristics
Characteristics:
Plants with widespreading naked stolons, giving off rhizoid-bearing
branches and foliar branches above; erect branches often quite close
together, with stalks 1-3 cm long ending in flat linear-oblong to
linear; blades simple or sparingly branched, regularly opposite pinnate,
the pinnules usually merked upcurved, very strongly compressed, contracted
at the base, tapering towards the tip and mucronate.
Distribution
:Malvan, (Maharashtra), Honawar Bhatkal (Karnataka).
Ecological
status : Intertidal zone
IUCN status :NE
Uses
: Food and animal feed
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