Bristle red alga
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![]() Bristle red alga ( Lemanea fluviatilis ), illustration (left side) |
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Lemanea fluviatilis | ||||||||||||
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The bristle red alga ( Lemanea fluviatilis ) is a species of red algae that occurs in Europe and that needs unpolluted river headwaters. It is therefore one of the comparatively few representatives of red algae that can be found in fresh water.
features
The alga forms beds of barely branched threads that are up to half a millimeter thick and are in dense, black-violet clusters. These filamentous bearings are nodularly structured by deep black bumps. The antheridia are formed in the humps . The thallus is hollow. It consists of a central thread and a cortex consisting of three layers, in the outer cells of which the majority of the chloroplasts are located. In the area between two nodes are four basal cells arranged crosswise, which extend from the central thread to the cortex. Long threads run from the peripheral ends of the basal cells to the knot. The threads are five to 15 cm long. The cortex cells are sometimes only 5 micrometers in size.
Occurrence
The bristle red alga is also found in Central Europe in clean cold water streams, especially in the low mountain range. It grows on submerged stones and on wood and, like other limnic red algae of the genus Lemanea , is considered the leading organism of the trout region .
In Germany the species is listed as "endangered" on the Red List .
literature
- Heinz Streble , Dieter Krauter : Life in a drop of water. Microflora and microfauna of freshwater. An identification book. 10th edition. Kosmos, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-440-10807-4 , p. 218.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Ed.): Red List of Endangered Plants in Germany . Publication series for vegetation science issue 28, 1996. ( PDF online )
Web links
- Bristle red alga . In: algaebase.org (English)