Gelidium 
bipectinatum G. Furnari

Gelidium bipectinatum
G. Furnari

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Species Details

Class: Florideophyceae
Genus: Gelidium J.V. Lamouroux
Species: Gelidium bipectinatum
Authority: G. Furnari
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.

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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
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