Hypnea
cervicornis J.
Agardh
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Order
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Family
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Genus
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Gigartinales
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Hypneaceae
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Hypnea
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Hypnea
cervicornis J.
Agardh
Characteristics
Plants
forming tangled tufts and extensive rather fragile reddish or bleached
mats, the chief axes 2-15 cm long, the lower branches decumbent those
above widely divaricate, subdichotomous, in the upper portions alternate
and somewhat cervicorn, the ultimate divisions tapering to the plant,
freely radially branched and the crowded ultimate divisions fertile,
tetrasporangia in rather crowded, linear or ovate, forking subulate
branchlets, cystocarps in similar branchlets on the carposporic plants.
Uses
: Source of carrageenan.
Culture/Cultivation
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