Description: |
Gelidium Bipectinatum is related to or has the following physical characteristics: an agarophyte, produces hydrocolloid agar in its cell walls, is a multicellular thallus with apical growth, has tetrasporangia, has a filamentous gonimoblast, has pit connections, cells have multiple nuclei and plastids, triphasic alternation of generations life history, a red algae, eukaryotic cells without flagella and centrioles, using floridean polysaccharides as food reserves, phycobiliproteins as accessory red pigments , chloroplasts lacking external endoplasmic reticulum and containing unstacked thylakoids, multicellular organisms, have a cell wall made of cellulose, obtain energy from sun typically with chlorophyll, sexual or asexual reproduction, modular and indeterminate growth, alternation of generations. LINK Algaebase Link |
References |
Furnari, G., Perrone, C. & Vinogradova, K.L. (2014). Proposal to conserve the name Gelidium bipectinatum against Fucus serra (Gelidium serra) (Rhodophyta: Gelidiaceae). Taxon 63(2): 427-428.
Taskin, E. & Wynne, M.J. (2013). Proposal of Gelidium serra (S.G. Gmel.) comb. nov. to replace Gelidium bipectinatum G. Furnari (Rhodophyta). Webbia: Journal of Plant Taxonomy and Geography 68: 21-23. |
Habitat: |
Marine species, on rocks. |
Type information: |
Type locality: Algiers, Algeria |