Biology:Chylocladia verticillata
| Chylocladia verticillata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| (unranked): | Archaeplastida |
| Division: | Rhodophyta |
| Class: | Florideophyceae |
| Order: | Rhodymeniales |
| Family: | Champiaceae |
| Genus: | Chylocladia |
| Species: | C. verticillata
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| Binomial name | |
| Chylocladia verticillata (Lightfoot) Bliding
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Chylocladia verticillata is a medium-sized red marine alga.
Description
Chylocladia verticillata is a marine alga which grows erect to a length of 30 cm from a disk-shaped holdfast. It branches in a whorled manner the thallus is hollow and shows constrictions at intervals, it is mucilaginous, gelatinous, and up to 5 mm broad. In colour it is pinkish or purple. The structure is multiaxial.[1][2]
Habitat
Epilithic or epiphytic in the lower littoral in rock pools and in the sublittoral.[1] Commonly found in the Laminarian zone.[3]
Reproduction
This alga is dioecious, cystocarps occur between April and October and tetraspores between May and September.[1]The male structures are arranged around the constrictions. The sporangia are visible in the tissue of the younger branches.[4]
Distribution
Found around the shares of the British Isles but more rarely on the eastern shores. Also recorded from Norway to Morocco into the Mediterranean including the Canary Isles,[1] also from the Channel Islands.[4]
Similar species
Champia parvula is not common but small specimens of Chylocladia verticillata may appear similar.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Irvine, L.M.1983. Seaweeds of the British Isles Volume 1 Rhodophyta Part 2A Cryptonemiales (sensu stricto), Palmariales, Rhodomeniales. British Museum (Natural History) ISBN:0565008714
- ↑ Newton, L. 1931. A handbook of the British Seaweeds. British Museum London.
- ↑ Lewis, J.R. 1964. The Ecology of Rocky Shores. The English Universities Press Ltd.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Bunker,F.StP.D., Maggs, C.A., Bunker, A.R. 2017. Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland, Second Edition, Wild Nature Press Plymouth. UK. ISBN:978-0-99556733-7
Wikidata ☰ Q51844843 entry
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