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Carolina Pereira e Miguel Oliveira
Local de colheita: Eskifjördur, Iceland
Descrição do local de colheita: Eskifjördur is in the East Coast of Iceland. Is a town and port with a large fishing industry. The prevailing climate is called a tundra climate. Even in the warmest month of the year the temperatures are very low. In Eskifjörður, the average annual temperature is 3.1°C. In a year, the average rainfall is 1317 mm. |
Description: |
Hello! I’m Chordaria flagelliformis, a Phaeophyceae, also known as Brown seaweed. I’ve a Thallus string-like, with divaricated branches, slippery, solid, dark-brown to black, 10-30 cm high. My Branches are cylindrical, or slightly compressed, to 3 mm wide, slightly tapering towards the base. My Medulla is composed of longitudinal filaments of long cylindrical cells to 50-600 µm decreasing towards periphery to 16-18 µm. My Unilocular sporangia oval, 20-23 x 60-108 µm, develop at the base of the assimilative filaments. Thank you for wanting to know me. |
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Chordaria flagelliformis (O.F.Müller) C.Agardh |