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| authority = ([[Lewis Weston Dillwyn|Dillwyn]]) [[Gustave Adolphe Thuret|Thuret]], 1863
| authority = ([[Lewis Weston Dillwyn|Dillwyn]]) [[Gustave Adolphe Thuret|Thuret]], 1863
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'''''Ulothrix flacca''''' is a small filamentous marine algae.
'''''Ulothrix flacca''''' is a small filamentous marine algae.


==Description==
==Description==
This species grows as small tufts of green unbranched filaments growing to no more than 10 cm long forming woolly masses. Cells 14.4 - 32.6μm broad and 4.8-9.6μm <ref>Newton, L. 1931. ''A Handbook of the British Seaweeds.'' British Museum</ref><ref name=Burrows>Burrows, E.M.1991. ''Seaweeds of the British Isles Volume 2 Chlorophyta''. Natural History Museum, London{{ISBN|0-565-00981-8}}</ref>''Ulothrix pseudoflacca'' and ''Ulothrix consociata'' are considered to be forms of ''Ulothrix flacca'' by some biologists. Sometimes difficult to distinguish ''Ulothrix'' from ''Urospora''.<ref name="Burrows"/>
This species grows as small tufts of green unbranched filaments growing to no more than 10&nbsp;cm long forming woolly masses. Cells 14.4–32.6μm broad and 4.8–9.6μm <ref>Newton, L. 1931. ''A Handbook of the British Seaweeds.'' British Museum</ref><ref name=Burrows>Burrows, E.M.1991. ''Seaweeds of the British Isles Volume 2 Chlorophyta''. Natural History Museum, London{{ISBN|0-565-00981-8}}</ref>''Ulothrix pseudoflacca'' and ''Ulothrix consociata'' are considered to be forms of ''Ulothrix flacca'' by some biologists. Sometimes difficult to distinguish ''Ulothrix'' from ''Urospora''.<ref name="Burrows"/>


==Distribution==
==Distribution==
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[[Category:Ulotrichaceae]]
[[Category:Ulotrichaceae]]
[[Category:Chlorophyta species]]



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Ulothrix flacca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Ulvophyceae
Order: Ulotrichales
Family: Ulotrichaceae
Genus: Ulothrix
Species:
U. flacca
Binomial name
Ulothrix flacca
(Dillwyn) Thuret, 1863

Ulothrix flacca is a small filamentous marine algae.

Description[edit]

This species grows as small tufts of green unbranched filaments growing to no more than 10 cm long forming woolly masses. Cells 14.4–32.6μm broad and 4.8–9.6μm [1][2]Ulothrix pseudoflacca and Ulothrix consociata are considered to be forms of Ulothrix flacca by some biologists. Sometimes difficult to distinguish Ulothrix from Urospora.[2]

Distribution[edit]

Common all around the British Isles. Recorded from Scandinavia south to Portugal, in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Also all around the world into the Pacific.[2]

Habitat[edit]

It is found on rocks, stones and epiphytically on other algae.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Newton, L. 1931. A Handbook of the British Seaweeds. British Museum
  2. ^ a b c d Burrows, E.M.1991. Seaweeds of the British Isles Volume 2 Chlorophyta. Natural History Museum, LondonISBN 0-565-00981-8