Guide to the identification of marine plants and invertebrate animals ...

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cell-s fused i.n the bl-ade except at the margin where
they separate and form a hoi-low. Not branched; some
varieties undul-ate.
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tubular and general-Iy inflated; easily identified by its
bl-istered or puckered appearance.
c. prol-ifera: tubular I straight margi.ns I
abundantly branched.
d. carnpressa: similar to prolifera but
f ewe r branch e s; vEEI--Eh-e ma i n ax e s u suEf,ff ]-a t t e ned .
Order Cladophorafes
Filamentous, uniseriate, usually with a basa]
hol-dfast, branched or unbranchedl ce11s mul-ti--nucleate
with a large central- vacuofe, numerous disc-shaped
chloroplasts or the chl-oroplasts united to form a network,
one to many pyrenoi-ds, the cel-l walls often much
thi.ckened in the mai-n axis.
Famil-y Cladophoraceae
Genus Chaetomor ha. Plants unbranched.
attached by the basal cellfree
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or j-n the form of tangled
il-aments.
Genus- Cladophora. Fifamentous, branched
uniseriatel-Iila$ attffied by a holdfast; cel-l-s mul-tj.-
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durlng reproductive peri,od many zoospores or gametes
may be actj-ve within the upper cel-l-s.
Order Siphonales
Pfants coenocyticl filamentous, branched or
unbranched, with smai-l- chromatophores, and with or
without pyrenoids.
Family Bryopsidaceae
Genus Bryopsis. Pl-ant erect; pale green in
h.a qo
color; several rnain branches arising from the