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Champia indica   Borgesen,  1933 (Algae)
Organism information awaits expert curation

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Description
Color: Rosy red to darker shades.

Plants occurring in dense pyramidal tufts, 15 cm or more in height. Thallus conspicuously articulated; segments barrel shaped, 3 mm broad and as long as broad in the main branches; in secondary and other branches, much shorter. Thallus wall one layer thick, made up of roundish polygonal cells, 50-75 µ long, 50-60 µ broad. Cortical cells present among wall cells. Cortical cells smaller about 12 µ across. Diaphragm at joints, one layer thick, of polygonal cells. Vertical filaments traverse the interior of branches through the joints, ramified, ramifications reaching the wall-cells. Gland cells occur here and there, spherical. Tetraspores scattered over the surface of the thallus. Cystocarps small, depressed, sub-spherical 500 µ X 600 µ.

Biogeography


• Gujarat, Jalleshwar shore (Lat: 20.9) (Long: 70.37) INDIA
• Gujarat, Okha Port (Lat: 22.45) (Long: 69.07) INDIA
• Gujarat, Porbandar INDIA
• Gujarat, Okha (Lat: 22.47) (Long: 69.08) INDIA
• Gujarat, Okha INDIA
• Tamil Nadu, Tuticorin (Lat: 8.78) (Long: 78.13) INDIA
• Gujarat, Saurashtra (Lat: 21.97) (Long: 70.5) INDIA
• Gujarat, Gulf of Kachchh (Lat: 22.6) (Long: 69.5) INDIA
• Gujarat, Dwarka Coast (Lat: 22.23) (Long: 68.97) INDIA
• Gujarat, Okha (Lat: 22.45) (Long: 69.07) INDIA
• INDIA
• MAURITIUS
• PAKISTAN
• SEYCHELLES
• YEMEN
• Gujarat, Gulf of Kachchh INDIA
• Gujarat, Dwarka Reef INDIA
• Gujarat, Okha Reef INDIA
• Tamil Nadu, Off Tuticorin INDIA (Record: 12/1958-05/1959) (Depth: 13-16 mts)
• Gujarat, Veraval INDIA
• Gujarat, Shivrajpur INDIA
• Gujarat, Dwarka INDIA

Literature Source(s)

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• Murthy, MS; Bhattacharya, M and Radia, P (1978) Ecological studies on the intertidal algae at Okha (India) Botanica marina Cram,De Gruyter and Co., Hamburg, Germany 21 381-386 Available at - NIO, Goa

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• Gopalakrishnan, P (1970) Some observations on the shore ecology of the Okha Coast Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India Cochin, India 120(1&2) 15-34 Available at - NIO, Goa

• Varma, RP (1960) Flora of the pearl beds off Tuticorin Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India Marine Biological Association of India 2 (2) 221-225 Available at - http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1405/1/Prasanna_221-225.pdf

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