Catenella caespitosa
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| Catenella caespitosa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Clade: | Archaeplastida |
| Division: | Rhodophyta |
| Class: | Florideophyceae |
| Order: | Gigartinales |
| Family: | Caulacanthaceae |
| Genus: | Catenella |
| Species: | C. caespitosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Catenella caespitosa (Withering) L.M.Irvine | |
Catenella caespitosa is a small red marine alga.
This small alga grows to 20 mm high from a discoid holdfast and dark brown in colour. Very irregularly branched, creeping moss-like and terete. Branches easily seen to be constricted at intervals. Medulla, the inner cells, formed of thick-walled filaments and with a cortex of rows of elongated cells radially arranged compact cells.[1][2]
Habitat, ecology
Catanella caespitosa occurs in shaded sites on rock and around the holdfasts of the fucoids of the upper littoral.[3]
