Bryopsis hypnoides Lamouroux

Order Family    Genus Siphonales Bryopsidaceae Bryopsis

Bryopsis hypnoides Lamouroux

Characteristics

Frond seldom over 10 cm high, soft, rather pale green, usually much branched, branches in no definite order, growing smaller in the successive series and with  no sharp division between the lesser branches and the ramuli that clothe them on all sides and themselves branch more or less; downwardly directed rhizoids arising from the base of the main axis.

Distribution : Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Lakshdweep

Ecological status : Interidal (supralittoral)

IUCN status: NE (not evluated)

Uses: Food, animal feed and agricultural