Sargassum
wightii
Greville
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Family
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Fucales
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Sargassaceae
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Sargassum
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Sargassum
wightii Greville
Characteristics
Plant
dark-brown, 20-30 cm in height with a well marked holdfast, upper
portion richly branched, axes cylindrical, glabrous, leaves 5-8 cm
long and 2-9mm broad, leaves tapering at the base and apex, midrib
inconspicuous vesicles large, spherical or ellipsoidal being 5-8mm
long and 3-4 mm broad, stipe of the vesicle 5-7 mm long seldom ending
into a long tip, receptacles in clusters and repeatedly branched.
Distribution
: Bombay,(Maharashtra) Goa, Bhatkal (Karnataka) Kerala.
Ecological
status : intertidal and subtidal
IUCN
status : LRnt
Uses
: It is used as raw material for the production of sodium alginate.
It also contain 8-10 % of mannitol which can be used as substitute
for sugar, fertilizer and medicine
Cultivation
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