Cladophora
fascicularis Kutzing
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Order
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Family
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Genus
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Cladophorales
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Cladophoraceae
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Cladophora
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Cladophora
fascicularis
Kutzing
Characteristics
Plants large, 30 – 50 cm in length. Main axis stout,
cells 360 (200 to 250) in diameter
and 2 to 5 diameters in length, sparingly branched; ultimate
indefinite branches with densely fasciculate ramuli, 1.5 to 3.0 mm
in length, crowded near their tips, somewhat pectinate in arrangement;
cells of ramuli 70 t0 120 in diamtere and 1 to 3.5 diameter
in length.
Distribution : Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Lakshadweep
Ecological status : Interidal (supralittoral)
IUCN status: LR
Uses: Food, animal feed and agricultural
