Laurencia
obtusa (Hudson)
Lamouroux
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Order
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Family
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Genus
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Ceramiales
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Rhodomelaceae
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Laurencia
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Laurencia
obtusa (Hudson)
Lamouroux
Characteristics
Plants
1.5-2.5 diameter tall, bushy, with green or yellow axes and rose branchlets,
main stems long, which are sparingly alternately branched, 0.75-1.50
diameter, but above are increasingly closely paniculately branched
and spreading, the smallest branches and the short, truncate, ultinate
branchlets opposite or subverticillate, 0.5-0.75 mm diameter; tetrasporangia
in a band below the apex of the hardly modified branchlets.
Distribution
: Dwarka (Gujarat), Karwar (Karnataka) , Lakshadweep
Ecological
status : Intertidal zone.
IUCN
status : Source of food and agaroid, animal feed.
Uses
:
Culture/Cultivation
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