Stoechospermum
marginatum (C.
Agardh) Kutzing
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Family
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Genus
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Dictyotales
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Dictyotaceae
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Stoechospermum
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Stoechospermum
marginatum (C. Agardh ) Kutzing
Characteristics
Regurously
forking plants that may reach a length of 40 cm; usually the plants
are 20 -30 cm long and 8 - 11 mm broad; thallus flat, erect, spathulate,
dichotomously branched respectively, without a midrib; margin entire;
apex bifid or flatly truncate; section of thallus, greater part with
large parenchymanous cells in the middle and on either side covere
by two layers of small cells; fertile plants are easily identified
on the marginal dark lines of crowded sporangia.
Distribution
: Gujrat, Ratnagiri, Malvan, (Maharashtra), Goa, Karwar, Honawar,
Bhatkal, (Karnataka).
Ecological
status : Intertidal, zone
IUCN
status :LRnt
Uses
: Used as a source of alginate, fertiliger
Culture/Cultivation
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