Marine Plants of Hawai'i
Order Siphonocladales
| Dictyosphaeria cavernosa |
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| Description: commonly known as the "Green Bubble Alga"
due to the large round cells. When small the thallus is a hollow sphere, when larger the
sphere may burst becoming convoluted and cup shaped. The seaweed is grass green in color
and can form extensive mats over the reefs surface |
| Size: 1-10cm thick. |
| Habitat: |
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| Dictyosphaeria versluysii |
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| Description: has bubble-like cells, but is completely
solid in middle and always remains rounded. Grass green in color, but sometimes
bluish-green in color. |
| Size: 1-2 cm high and 1-5 cm wide. |
| Habitat: commonly found on reef flats and tidepools. |
| Photograph: Richardson's Beach Park, Hilo Hawai'i. 1996 |
| Microdictyon japonicum |
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| Description: M. japonicum is a single flattened blade
consisting of a meshwork of fine connecting branches. It is grass-green in color. |
| Size: from 1 to 6cm wide and 1 to 4 cm high. |
| Habitat: low intertidal areas of rocky coastlines, on flat reefs,
and in between the branches of corals at deeper depths. |
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