Chaetomorpha
aerea
(Dillwyn) Kutzing
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Order
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Family
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Genus
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Cladophorales
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Cladophoraceae
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Chaetomorpha
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Chaetomorpha
aerea
(Dillwyn) Kutzing
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Characteristics
Plants
gregarious, bright free, to 10-15, occasionally to 30 cm., tall; attached
by a slender, subclavate basal cell which has a disklike base lobed
or fimbriate at the margins; basal cell o 130 - 150µ diam. at
the top, 7.5 - 10.5 diameters long, and about 2.5 - 4.2 times as long
as the suprabasal cell; filaments slender towards the base, above
to 150-350µ diam., stiff and straight, the cells to 1-2 diameters
long, little constricted at the septa; zoospores formed in the upper
cells of the filament, which become cask-shaped to subglobose. 600
- 700 µ diam.
Distribution : Gujarat, Maharashtra, Lakshadweep
Ecological
status : Interidal (supralittoral)
IUCN
status:
Uses:
Food, animal feed and agricultural
