Gymnogongrus griffithsiae
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Scientific classification 
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| Clade: | Archaeplastida |
| Division: | Rhodophyta |
| Class: | Florideophyceae |
| Order: | Gigartinales |
| Family: | Phyllophoraceae |
| Genus: | Gymnogongrus |
| Species: | G. griffithsiae
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| Binomial name | |
| Gymnogongrus griffithsiae (Turner) C.Martius
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Gymnogongrus griffithsiae is a small uncommon seaweed.
Description
[edit]This small alga grows to 5 cm long from a small disc. The fronds are erect, stiff and branch dichotomously in 1 plane, the tips a little flattened. In colour it is dark purplish brown. The structure is multiaxial with elongated cells surrounded cortical cells.[1][2]
Reproduction
[edit]Male spermatangia are unknown.[2][3][failed verification] Carpotetasporangial outgrowths, that is sporangia containing four spores,[4] by a carposporophyte outgrowth which develops during the year.[2]
Distribution
[edit]Found in Great Britain and Ireland with a southern range, as far north as Lough Swilly. In the north Atlantic in the Azores in Europe to Massachusetts to Virginia in North America.[5][6]
Habitat
[edit]The plants grow in rock pools of the lower littoral and in the upper sublittoral.[2]
Possible confusion
[edit]This species is similar to Ahnfeltia plicata which usually has wiry irregular branching.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Bunker, F.StP D.; Brodie, J.A.; Maggs, C.A.; Bunker, A.R. (2017). Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland (Second ed.). Plymouth, UK: Wild Nature Press. ISBN 978-0-9955673-3-7.
- ^ a b c d e Dixon, P.S.; Irvine, L.M. (1977). Seaweeds of the British Isles Volume 1 Rhodophyta Part 1 Introduction, Nemaliales, Gigartinales. British Museum (Natural History). ISBN 0-565-00781-5.
- ^ Fritsch, F.E. (1965). The Structure and Reproduction of Algae Volume 11. Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Irvine, L.M. (1983). Seaweeds of the British Isles Volume 1 Rhodophyta. British Museum (Natural History). p. 99. ISBN 0-565-00871-4.
- ^ Morton, O. (1994). Marine Algae of Northern Ireland. Ulster Museum. ISBN 0900761288.
- ^ Morton, O. (2003). "The marine macroalgae of County Donegal, Ireland". Bulletin of Irish Biogeographical Society (27).
Further reading
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