Grateloupia indica Borgesen

Order Family    Genus Cryptonemiales Corynomorphaceae Grateloupia

Grateloupia indica Borgesen

Characteristics

Plant attached to substratum by a very small basal disc. Stipe short, compressed, cuneate, expanding in broad thallus; thallus flat, oblong to linear, extensively divided, tough, slippery, large, raching considerable dimension to more than one meter, 7 - 30 cm or more broad at broadest part, 300 - 350 µ thick; lobes of thallus many, margin irregularly sinuate, tips gradually tapering. Rhizoids 3 -4 µ thick; outer medulla more compact than inner; cortex many layered, cystocarp dispersed throughout the thallus, subspherical to spherical, occasionally flattened, 250 micron in diameter.

Distribution : Okha(Gujarat);Maharashtra, Goa, Honawar, Bhatkal (Karnataka)

Ecological status : Intertidal zone.

IUCN status :NE

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