Melobesia membranacea | |
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Scientific classification
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(unranked): | Archaeplastida |
Division: | Rhodophyta |
Class: | Florideophyceae |
Order: | Corallinales |
Family: | Hapalidiaceae |
Genus: | Melobesia |
Species: | M. membranacea
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Binomial name | |
Melobesia membranacea (Esper) Lamouroux
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Melobesia membranacea is a small marine alga encrusting on the surface of other algae. In the division of the Rhodophyta.
This small marine algae grows lightly encrusting as a thin epiphyte on other algae growing to 5 cm in diameter and c 90 micrometre thick. Conceptacles small but raised and visible. [1]
Carposporangial and tetrasporangial conceptacles are common. [1]
Very common growing epiphytically on other algae in the littoral and sublittoral on Furcellaria, Mastocarpus stellatus, Chondrus and other algae, in the low littoral and sub-littoral. [1]
Common all around the British Isles, including the Isle of Man and the Shetland Islands. [2] Holland to Cape Verde, Mediterranean, Canada, East Coast of the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. [1]