| Class: |
Ulvophyceae (ex Bryopsidophyceae) |
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Description: |
Thallus 20–40 cm long, 0.3–0.8 cm thick, deep-green, large and porous, attached with basal disk-like holdfast giving rise to several erect thalli; regularly or irregularly branched, sometimes proliferous, terete with short terminal segments; utricles obovate to oblong, square ended, with appreciable apical thickening; morphologically diverse: prostrate or erect, cylindrical or fl at, cushion-like or globular; branches cylindrical, gradually tapering to apices; basal part incrassate; apical branches relatively thin, the apices blunt (Milchakova 2011, Pereira 2016). |
| Biogeography |
NE Atlantic; Adriatic Sea; Black Sea; Mediterranean; Atlantic Is (Canary Is, Selvage Is); Asia (Japan, Korea). |
| Uses and compounds |
Used as traditional food in Japan and other Asian countries. C. vermilara is the source of BASs, valuable polysaccharides, PUFAs (Milchakova 2011, Pereira 2016). |
| References |
Milchakova, N. 2011. Marine Plants of the Black Sea. An illustrated Field Guide. Digit Print Press, Sevastopol, Ukraine, 144 pp.
Leonel Pereira. 2016. Edible seaweeds of the world. Science Publishers, an Imprint of CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, 453 pp. ISBN 9781498730471 |
