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Authority: |
(Nägeli ex Kützing) Kylin |
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Description: |
Blidingia minima consists of fine, branched or unbranched, hollow green tubes, up to 5 cm long. Groups of tubes arise from the raised centre of a small flattened disc-shaped holdfast that is attached to the rock. Plants reproduce throughout the year, reproductive spores arising from the upper layers of the tubes. |
| Name History |
Adjective (Latin), very little, very least |
| References |
Brodie, J., Maggs, C.A. & John, D.M. (2007). Green seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. pp. [i-v], vi-xii, 1-242, 101 figs. London: British Phycological Society. Burrows, E.M. (1991). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 2. Chlorophyta. pp. xi + 238, 60 figs, 9 plates. London: Natural History Museum Publications. Hollenberg, G.J. & Abbott, I.A. (1966). Supplement to Smith's marine algae of the Monterey Peninsula. pp. ix (xii), 1-130, 53 figs. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Lindeberg, M.R. & Lindstrom, S.C. (2010). Field guide to the seaweeds of Alaska. pp. [i-]iii-iv, 1-188, numerous col. photographs. Fairbanks: Alaska Sea Grant College Program. Lindstrom, S.C., Hanic, L.A. & Golden, L. (2006). Studies of the green alga Percursaria dawsonii (=Blidingia dawsonii comb. nov., Kornmanniaceae, Ulvales) in British Columbia. Phycological Research 54(1): 40-56, 3 tables, 19 figs. Pedroche, F.F., Silva, P.C., Aguilar-Rosas, L.E., Dreckmann, K.M. & Aguilar-Rosas, R. (2005). Catálogo de las algas marinas bentónicas del Pacífico de México. I. Chlorophycota. pp. i-viii, 17-146. Ensenada, México: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Selivanova, O.N. & Zhigadlova, G.G. (2009). Marine benthic algae of the South Kamchatka state wildlife sanctuary (Kamchatka, Russia). Botanica Marina 52(4): 317-329. |
| Habitat: |
Marine species, found on hard surfaces, including stones, rocks and boulders on the upper shore and in harbours and estuaries. Occasionally found free-floating in sheltered water |
| Type information: |
Basionym
Enteromorpha minima Nägeli ex Kützing Type information
Type locality: Helgoland, Germany (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 728). Holotype: L 938.69.168 (Womersley 1984: 150). |
