Marine Plants of Hawai'i
Division Chlorophyta -- green seaweeds
| Bryopsis plumosa |
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| Description: delicate soft feather-like appearance, dark
green color. |
| Size: 2-12 cm long. |
| Habitat: shallow reef flats, and
tide pools, and lower intertidal
habitats with low wave action. |
| Photograph: Onekahakaha Beach Park, Hilo Hawai'i. 1996 |
| Codium arabicum |
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| Description: a dark green spongy mass, characterized by
rolling bumps or convolutions on surface. |
| Size: 0.5-3 cm thick and up to 15 cm wide. |
| Habitat: intertidal and reef flats. |
| Photograph:
Richardson's Beach Park, Hilo Hawai'i. 1996 |
| Codium edule |
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| Description: forms spongy matlike mass of many
intertwined dark green cylindrical branches. Branches attach whatever they contact. Looks
like green rat's feet. |
| Size: 3-8 cm in diameter. |
| Habitat: reef flats, in lower intertidal habitats and in
tide pools. |
| Photograph:
Richardson's Beach Park, Hilo Hawai'i. 1996 |
| Codium reediae |
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| Description: dark green with flattened branches |
| Size: 1-2cm wide attached to bottom in one place,
upright. |
| Habitat: in fairly calm water such as deep
tide pools and on deep
reef flats growing to 10cm in length. |
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