Ulva
profunda Taylor
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Order
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Family
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Genus
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Ulvales
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Ulvaceae
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Ulva
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Characteristics
Plant
at first ovate, attached by a cuneate base and a stalk about 1 mm.
long; later widely expanded, irregular, to 4 dm. or more in diameter,
delicate; regularly clathrate, the opening generally 0.5 - 1.5 cm.
but reaching 6 cm. diam.; cells of the blade angular, 18 - 36 µ
diam., containing one, seldom 2, chromatophores which nearly cover
the face of the cell and contain one, rarely 2, pyrenoids; thickness
of the blade 30 - 60 µ; in section cells subequal to broader
than tall, thin walled laterally, but the outer membranes 1.5 - 3.0
µ thick; cells bounding the openings transversely elongate,
reaching surface diameters of 18 x 72 µ or more.
Distribution
: Gujarat
Ecological
status : Intertidal zone
IUCN
status :
Uses
: Food, animal feed and medicine
Culture/Cultivation
