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Description: |
Plants bushy or spreading, not tufted. Filaments slightly to profusely branched; plants usually in soft to stiff clumps, often floating; The main axis branches dichotomously and has lateral branches that are shorter, narrower (20 - 40 µm diameter) and arranged alternately, opposite or on one side. Lateral branches near the tip often have shorter branches between longer branches. Attachment is by rhizoids from basal poles of mid to lower cells, or by cluster of basal rhizoids. Pale green to grass green.  Download PDF from Algaebase
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| Name History |
Adjective (Latin), sericeous, silky with long straight close-pressed glossy hairs (Stearn 1973). |
| Biogeography |
World-wide distribution: Australia, Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean, Caribbean, Indian and Pacific Oceans. |
| References |
Bakker, F.T., Olsen, J.L. & Stam, W.T. (1995). Evolution of nuclear rDNA ITS sequences in the Cladophora albida/sericea clade (Chlorophyta). Journal of Molecular Evolution 40: 640-651, 4 figs, 7 tables.
Breeman, A.M., Oh, Y.S., Hwang, M.S. & Van den Hoek, C. (2002). Evolution of temperature responses in the Cladophora vagabunda complex and the C. albida/sericea complex (Chlorophyta). European Journal of Phycology 37: 45-58.
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| Habitat: |
Occurs in small amounts with other algae or in abundant loose strands attached to coral, basalt substrate, and other hard surfaces on reef flats near low tide line to 2m deep. |
| Type information: |
Basionym: Conferva sericea Hudson Lectotype locality: Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 780). Holotype: OXF Marine material of Conferva trichoides virgata, sericea in Dillenius’s herb (Hoek 1963 Notes: Silva et al. recommend consulting van den Hoek (1963: 77) for further information regarding the lectotype locality of this species. |
