Giffordia mitchellae (Harvey) G. Hamel

Order Family    Genus Ectocarpales Ectocarpaceae Giffordia

Giffordia mitchellae (Harvey) G. Hamel

Characteristics

Plants bushy or in large diffuse masses, from 2-3cm in length to a few decimeters, attached by rhizoids below, the longer filaments sometimes stranded together, branching abundant, alternate or second, main axes to 35-50 micron diameter, the cells 2-3 diameters long, in the branches to 15-20 micron diameter, older cells with discoid chromatophores, branches often with hairlike tips, sporangia rare, reported to be sessile, oblong, 25-45 micron diameter. 60-80 micron long, gametangia polymorphic, sessile in series on the upper side of the branches, elliptic oblong to linear - cylindrical, markedly obtuse at the apex, 20-30 micron diameter, 50-150 micron long, the meiosporangia with cells about 6-7 micron wide. The cells in the megasporangia 10-17 micron wide.

Distribution :, Goa, Malvan, Ratnagiri, (Maharashtra)

Ecological status : Intertidal zone,

IUCN status :NE

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