Gastroclonium ovatum | |
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Scientific classification
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(unranked): | Archaeplastida |
Division: | Rhodophyta |
Class: | Florideophyceae |
Order: | Rhodymeniales |
Family: | Champiaceae |
Genus: | Gastroclonium |
Species: | G. ovatum
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Binomial name | |
Gastroclonium ovatum (Hudson) Papenfuss
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Gastroclonium reflexum is a small red marine seaweed.
Gastroclonium ovatum is a small alga which grows to 15 cm long. The branches are cylindrical, grow from a branched holdfast and branch irregularly. It shows short branches which are hollow with bladder-like or vesicle-like branches - rather elongate with a single joint. In colour it is dark purplish red. [1] [2] [3]
Found in rock pools in the littoral or upper sublittoral, epilithic or epiphytic. [2]
Recorded from the British Isles, Mauritania, Canary Islands [2] and the Channel Islands. [1]
The sexes are separate. The female cystocarps occur on the branches and the tetrasporangia in the cortex of the vesicles. [1]
Gastroclonium reflexum distinguished by many branches being reflexed [2] and Chylocladia verticillata. [1]