Champia parvula (C. Agardh) Harvey

Order Family    Genus Rhodymeniales Champiaceae Champia

 

Champia parvula (C. Agardh) Harvey

Characteristics

Plant tufted, the tuft dense, pale dull red, pinkish brown or greenish, crisply membranous in texture, to 3-10 cm tall; branching alternate, the branches 0.5-2.0 mm diam. tapering, segmented, the hollow segments cask-shaped, 1.0-1.5 diameter long, the tips of the branches obtuse; tetrasporangia 55-100 µ diam., numerous to the segments; cystocarp relatively few, in prominent superficial pericarp.

Distribution : Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Lakshadweep