Champia indica Borgesen

Order Family    Genus Rhodymeniales Champiaceae Champia

Champia indica Borgesen

Characteristics

Plants occuring in dense pyramidal tuft, 15 cm or more in height, rosy red to darker shades; thallus conspicuously articulated; segments barrel shaped, 3 mm broad and as along as broad in the main branches; in secondary and other branches much shorter; thallus wall one layer thick, made up of roundish polygonal cells, 50 - 75µ long, 50 - 60µ broad. Cortical cells present among wall cells. Cortical cells, smaller about 12µ across; diaphragm at joints, one layer thick, of polygonal cells; vertical filaments transverse the interior of branches through the joints, ramified, ramification reaching the wall cells; gland cells occur here and there, spherical. Tetraspores scattered over the surface of the thallus; cystocarps small, depressed, subspherical, 500 x 600µ.

Distribution : Gujarat