Caulerpa subserrata

Caulerpa subserrata is a species of seaweed in the Caulerpaceae family.

Caulerpa subserrata
Scientific classification
Phylum: Chlorophyta
Class: Ulvophyceae
Order: Bryopsidales
Family: Caulerpaceae
Genus: Caulerpa
Species:
C. subserrata
Binomial name
Caulerpa subserrata

Description

The seaweed has erect fronds that arise from repeating, cylindrically shaped, branching, glabrous surculus and often two or three individuals are found together. It is flat and has a linear or elliptic to oblong shape in outline. The fronds are truncato-obtuse at apex and oval at the base tapering to a very short cylindrical stipe. The fronds are 1 to 2.5 centimetres (0.39 to 0.98 in) long and 3 to 4 millimetres (0.118 to 0.157 in) wide. It can be simple or branches by proliferations and is serrated with lobes along both margins. The lobes are short, patent and a little curved upward and subalternate.[1]

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by the botanist Kintarô Okamura in 1897 as part of the work On the algae from Ogasawara-jima (Bonin Islands) as published in the Botanical Magazine, Tokyo.[2]

Distribution

It is found along the coast of the Bonin Islands about 500 kilometres (311 mi) south of Japan.[2]

References
  1. Tokyo Botanical Society (ed.). "The Botanical Magazine" (PDF). AlgaeBase.
  2. Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2018). "Caulerpa subserrata Okamura". AlgaeBase. National University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
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