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Acanthophora spicifera - Rhodophyta
Thallus: Brittle, spiny
Branches: Cylindical, irregularly radical
Branchlets:Uniformly abundant short with spur like spines
Hypnea musciformis - Rhodophyta
Thallus: bushy, tangled, wiry, thin
Branching: Irregular, sparse
Branchlets: Numerous slightly up curled ends
Parenchymatous cell packing
Gracilaria Blodgettii - Rhodophyta
Thallus: Tough cartilaginous
Branching: cylindrical, alternate and disproportional
Branchlets: cylindrical arched inward constricted at the base ends are round and round and tapered
cells are parenchymatous and irregular
long slender taper, favors branching to one side, pinching at base when branching
Hypnea cervicornis - Rhodophyta
wiry pointed straight branchlets thin irregular branching fork like ends
Gracilaria tikvahiae - Rhodophyta
Thallus: highly variable, delicate sparse clumps branched tightly
branching cylindrical arched outward apex tapered and pointed
irregular parenchymatous cells
Solieria filiformis - Rhodophyta
a smooth, mucousy and cartilaginous alga with cylindrical branches that are very flexible and branch dichotomously
Has diffused filamentous cell packing with thick cells walls
Dictyota cervicornis - Phaeophyta
Flat, branching in to two groups
cells like corn on the cob, rectangular
thallus: bushing and branching dichotomously asymmetrical
branches: wide twisted or spirla apex is pointed
Ulva fasciata - Chlorophyta
Thin sheetlike
Blades two cells thick
no stalk
cells are irregularly arranged
Ulva lactuca - Chlorophyta
thin sheet like
cells are square and regularly arranged
Enteromorpha intestinalis - Chlorophyta
thallus: flacid gergarious cylindrical or flattened tubes in clusters or tufts
Blades: hollow, tubular, tapering towards base
cells: rounded rectangular not in linear rows unordered through out
Caulerpa prolifer - Chlorophyta
Frond: Thin delicate to thick undivided oval to elongated dark green
stalk short and slender
Cladophora liniformis - Chlorophyta
green seaweed that forms unattached masses of simple or sparsely and irregularly branched light to dark (bluish) green filaments up to 9 cm long. The branches are separated at the base by an oblique dividing wall. It is common in sheltered brackish environments but its seasonality is poorly known.
Halimeda opuntia - Chlorophyta
Carbonate
looks like oats kind of like string of turtles
Penicillus-chlorophyta
carbonate
looks like a makeup powder brush
bushy
Amphiroa - Rhodophyta
Looks like tacks
Udotea- chlorophyta
Carbonate
looks like wavy leaves
Galaxaura squalida- Rhodophyta
Carbonate
Looks like stereotypical coral
tapered base and lots of branchlets at the top giving it a bush like look
conocarpus erectus- supra tidal
green buttonwood
Conocarpus erectus sericeus
silver buttonwood
Halodule wrightii
Seagrass
flat and narrow
Shoal grass
Thalassia testudinum
Wide and flat
turtle grass
seagrass
Syringodium filiforme
Manatee grass
narrow and round
seagrass
Rhizophera mangle
red mangrove
dark green on top leaf
light green on bottom leaf
blunt point
no leaf hairs
no glands
elongated
cannot see vains because of thick cuticle
Laguncularia racemosa
round leaf shape with a “V” cut into the top
bright green on both sides
waxy cuticle
small glands on leaf stem (extrafloral nectories)
No hairsn
2 leaves per node
Avicennia germinans
Dark green on leaf top
Light green on leaf botto,
a perimeter vain
thin base
blunt point tip
waxy cuticle
broader at the center of the leaf
silvery hairs on the bottom of the leaf
perimeter vain
no glands
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