Valonia
aegagropila C.
Agardh
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Order
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Family
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Genus
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Siphonocladales
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Valoniaceae
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Valonia
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Valonia
aegagropila
C.
Agardh
Thallus
bright green to brownish green in colour, grow up to 3 cm tall forming
thick fleshy crust attached to sandy-rocky substrate by rhizoids,
composed of many vesicular segments laterally and compactly adjoined
to each other by hapteroid cells; the clavate vesicle (segment) are
slightly constricted at the bases and are arranged in layers with
two or five daughter vesicles arising from a parent vesicle; vesicles
are
filled with fluid when fresh and 4 - 6.3 mm long, 1 - 1.6 mm in diameter.
Distribution
: Gujarat and Lakshadweep
Ecological
status : Intertidal zone.
IUCN
status :NE
Uses
:
Culture/Cultivation
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