Padina tetrastromatica Hauck

Order Family    Genus Dictyotales Dictyotaceae Padina

Padina tetrastromatica Hauck

Characteristics

Thalli flabelliform, usually divided into several small lobes, regularly and distinctly concentrically zonate due to the regular rowa of fructiferous organs; easly recognized due to dark double lines of sporangia; enclosing a line of colourless hairs in between; blades composed of two layers of cells, in the young apical involute portion, about 3 0 - 40 µ thick, in the middle three cell layered partitions about 80 - 90 µ thick, lower down replaced by thr typical four cell layer, about 130 - 150 micron or more near the basal portion.

Distribution : Gujrat, Malvan, Ratnagiri, , (Maharashtra),Goa, Karwar, Honawar, Bhatkal, (Karnataka) Lakshadweep,

Ecological status : Mangrove swamps (attached to mud)/Intertidal

IUCN status : LRnt

Uses : Extraction of algenate, fertilizer

Cultivation : Level 4

Existing Cultivation : None