Asteronema breviarticulatum

Asteronema breviarticulatum (J. Agardh) Ouriques & Bouzon

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Family:	Scytothamnaceae ()
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Environment:	sessile; marine
Distribution:	Atlantic Ocean: In Cuba and Trinidad and Tobago, east to Cape Verde Island and south to Nigeria, including St. Helena and Ascension Island; Indian Ocean: In Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa; Pacific Ocean: In southern Viet Nam, Federated States of Micronesia and Papua New Guinea, east to Mexico, including Wake Atoll, American Samoa and Hawaiian Islands.
Diagnosis:	Thalli, approximately 2.5 cm tall, form tufts of interwoven filaments, which have the appearance of a frayed rope at its tips (Fig. 13). Filaments are uniseriate and irregularly branched with numerous short hooked branches arising at an angle of 80-90°. Growth takes place by intercalary cell divisions. Cells are 25-33 μm wide, 60-80 μm long, L/B: 1-1.3. Plurilocular sporangia, placed on a 1-2-celled stalk, are spherical to ovoid and measure 40 x 42 (-63) μm on average (Ref. 82093). It is characterised by the shape of the plurilocular sporangia and the presence of short hooked branches (Ref. 82093).
Biology:	Thalli, approximately 2.5 cm tall (Ref. 82093). Growing in the intertidal, often attached to barnacles in wave-exposed localities (Ref. 82093).
IUCN Red List Status:	Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
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