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Chaetomorpha Melagonium 50.530 (Weber & Mohr) Kützing Chaetomorpha melagonium 50.530 (Weber & Mohr) Kützing MICRO filament PLANT Techniques needed and shape Classification Phylum: Chlorophyta; Order: Cladophorales; Family: Cladophoraceae *Descriptive name tufted, rough green threads (differing in touch to other softer thread-like green algae such as Cladophora) Features plants occur as tufts of dark green, stiff strands to 30mm tall, attached to rock Special requirements view the threads microscopically to find: 1. stiff threads 400-600m wide are attached, by rhizoids and a lobed base (holdfast) on an elongate basal cell 2-3mm long and about 400m wide 2. threads increase only slightly upwards 3. cells are box-shaped, with length to breadth (L/B) = 1-2 Occurrences N. Europe and temperate N Atlantic Ocean. In southern Australia, from the Recherché Archipelago, W Australia and S coast, Yorke Pen., S Australia Usual Habitat in the lower intertidal on rock, sometimes associated with sand Similar Species other attached Chaetomorpha spp with hair-like threads, in shallow, calm water, for example Ch aerea, but threads of Ch aerea are attached by elongate cells only 1mm long and less than 150m wide, and increase in width upwards Description in the Benthic Flora Part I, pages 173, 176, 179 Details of anatomy 3. 1. 2- 3mm hf rh 2. 1, 2. Chaetomorpha melagonium (7443) stained blue and viewed microscopically 1. base of a thread showing the elongate basal cell (bas c), expanding at the tip, bearing rhizoids (rh) and a developing lobed basal holdfast (hf) 2. a strand with box-shaped cells, L/B = 1.5-2.0 3. Chaetomorpha melagonium (A24699) from Flat Rock Bay, S coast of Yorke Peninsula, S Australia on rock in the lower intertidal * Descriptive names are inventions to aid identification, and are not commonly used “Algae Revealed” R N Baldock, S Australian State Herbarium, June 2007 .
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