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Melobesia membranacea

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Melobesia membranacea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Clade: Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Order: Corallinales
Family: Hapalidiaceae
Genus: Melobesia
Species:
M. membranacea
Binomial name
Melobesia membranacea
(Esper) Lamouroux

Melobesia membranacea is a small marine alga encrusting on the surface of other algae. In the division of the Rhodophyta.

Description

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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]

Reproduction

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Carposporangial and tetrasporangial conceptacles are common.[1]

Habitat

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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]

Distribution

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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]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Irvine, L. and Chamberlain, Y.M. 1994. Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1 Rhodophyta Part 2B Corallinales, Hildenbrandiales The Natural History Museum, London. ISBN 0-11310016-7
  2. ^ Hardy, F.G. and Guiry, M.D. 2003. A Check-list and Atlas of the Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. British Phycological Society ISBN 0-9527115-16