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Description: |
Cystoseira mediterranea has an upright thallus, with a single cylindrical main axis; irregular ramifications are present with the alga reaching a height of 400 mm. The receptacles are short and cylindrical, and whilst it has gas-filled vesicles, it is lacking in tophules. The main axis has a relatively soft texture, whilst the outer extremities are rough, almost spiny. C. mediterranea is a brown to olive green colour and displays a bluish green iridescence when submerged. |
| Name History |
Adjective (Latin), Mediterranean Sea (Stearn 1973). |
| References |
Boisset, F. & Gómez Garreta, A. (1989). Aproximación al análisis fitosociológico de la flora algal del subestrato de Cystoseira mediterranea Sauv. en el litoral valenciano (España, Mediterráneo). Botanica Complutensis 14: 51-63. Delgado, O., Ballesteros, E. & Vidal, M. (1994). Seasonal variation in tissue nitrogen and phosphorus of Cystoseira mediterranea Sauvageau (Fucales, Phaeophyceae) in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Botanica Marina 37: 1-9, 5 figs, 3 tables. Echegaray, J. & Seoane Camba, J. (1992). Aspectos sobre la capacidad de regeneración de Cystoseira mediterranea Sauvageau. Botanica Complutensis 17: 47-53. Fadli, M., Aracil, J.M., Jeanty, G., Banaigs, B. & Francisco, C. (1991). Novel meroterpenoids from Cystoseira mediterranea - Use of the Crown-Gall bioassay as a primary screen for lipophilic antineoplastic agents. J Nat Prod-Lloydia 54(1): 261-264. Francisco, C., Banaigs, B., Valls, R. & Codomier, L. (1985). Mediterraneol a, a novel rearranged diterpenoid-hydroquinone from the marine alga Cystoseira mediterranea.. Tetrahedron Lett. 26: 2629-2632. Giaccone, G. (1985). Una nuova specie mediterranea del genere Cystoseira C. Agardh (Phaeophyta, Fucales): C. hyblaea G. Giaccone, con osservazioni critiche su alcune entità tassonomiche poco note o imperfettamente descritte. Boll. Acc. Gioenia Sci. Nat. 18: 429-442. Rodriguez-Prieto, C. & Polo Albertí, L. (1998). Anàlisi fitosociològica de la comunitat de Cystoseira mediterranea de Palamós (Mediterrània nordoccidental). Acta Bot. Barcinonensia 45: 141-156. Rodríguez-Prieto, C. & Polo, L. (1996). Effects of sewage pollution in the structure and dynamics of the community of Cystoseira mediterranea (Fucales, Phaeophyceae). Scientia Marina 60(2-3): 253-263. |
| Habitat: |
Grows in wave-exposed or moderately exposed places, in the upper sublittoral zone, always near the surface. |
