Enteromorpha compressa (Linnaeus) Nees

Order Family    Genus Ulvales Ulvaceae Enteromorpha

Enteromorpha compressa (Linnaeus) Nees

Characteristics

Plants generally gregarious, attached, bright to dark green, 3dm tall, tubular, more or less compressed or collapsed, above expanded, 220 mm wide, below long, tapering and characteristically with several branches from the gradually contracted stalklike base which are similar to the principal blade. Cells in the adult plants irregularly placed, 10-15 micron diameter, rounded subquadrate, the walls not thickened, in section vertically elongate, the whole membrane 13-20 micron thick.

Distribution : Bombay, Malvan, Ratnagiri (Maharashtra), Goa

Ecological status : Intertidal zone, Mangrove swamps, Estuaries

IUCN status : LR

Uses : It is used as vegetable and also in the Form of salad, jam and power, animal feed and medicine