Melobesia membranacea
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| Melobesia membranacea | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Clade: | Archaeplastida |
| Division: | Rhodophyta |
| Class: | Florideophyceae |
| Order: | Corallinales |
| Family: | Hapalidiaceae |
| Genus: | Melobesia |
| Species: | M. membranacea |
| Binomial name | |
| Melobesia membranacea (Esper) Lamouroux | |
Melobesia membranacea is a small marine alga encrusting on the surface of other algae. In the division of the Rhodophyta.
This small marine algae grows lightly encrusting as a thin epiphyte on other algae growing to 5 cm in diameter and c 90 micrometre thick. Conceptacles small but raised and visible.[1]
Reproduction
Carposporangial and tetrasporangial conceptacles are common.[1]