Road Map to Expand Blue Carbon Reservoir - Blue Carbon Reservoir of the Blue Planet - page 282

2. Filaments fl exous intertwined into a fl eece 3. The axis and branches divided into dorsi-

ventrally compressed ellipsoid to ovate seg-
ment 3

with thin cell wall.
3. Frequent rhizoid branches.
4. Vegetative cells measure about 23

5 times longer than broad.
4. The haptera terminating into uncorticated
fl

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26 µ ,

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diameter usually 1 2 times as long as broad. y formed at points of

forking and not in the plane of branching of
the thallus.
Type IX
Systematic Position :
Division

agellar outgrowth chie fl

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Type VI
Systematic Position :
Division — Chlorophyta

Class — Chlorophyceae

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Order Cladophorales Chlorophyta

Family — Cladophoraceae Class — Rhodophyceae

Genus — Chaetomorpha

Species

Order — Ceramiales

— aerea
Salient features :
1. Filaments are unbranched.
2. Filaments

Family — Rhodomelaceae

Type — Bostrychia sp.

Salient features :
1. Filiform, black or dull purplish.
2. Thallus with erect branches often distinguishable.
3. Rhizoids polysiphonous, ordinarily regular
and bilaterally branched.
4. Branches with several cells of equal length
being disposed about the central axis or these
pericentral

50 55 µ in diameter and

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1.5 times long.
3. Rhizoids present at the base are unbranched
and are disc like in appearance.
4. Cell wall thick, hyaline and lamellate.
Type VII
Systematic Position :
Division — Chlorophyta
Class

1 -

cells regularly transversely

divided.
Type X
Systematic Position :
Division

— Chrysophyceae

Order — Vaucheriaceae

Family — Cladophoraceae — Chlorophyta

Type — Vaucheria sp. Class — Rhodophyceae

Salient features :
1. Thallus

Order — Ceramiales

lamentous, aseptate and laterally and
irregularly branched.
2. Filaments usually attached by branched
rhizoids.
3. Filaments cylindrical with numerous small
chloroplasts towards the exterior boundering
the central vacuole.
4. Chloroplasts are without pyrenoids.
Type VIII
Systematic Position :
Division

Family — Delesseriaceae

Genus — Caloglossa

Species

— leprieurie
Salient features :
1. Plants dorsiventral, spreading or somewhat
erect up to 4 cm across deep reddish violet in
colour.
2. Blades 1.5 mm broad, constricted at the

forking and elsewhere.
3. Individual segments are lanceolate, 4 6mm

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— Chlorophyta long, sometimes linear - attenuate, rarely

Class — Rhodophyceae ovate.

4. Rhizoids and secondary segments or blades
formed at the constrictions; blades formed
here are irregularly branched.

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Order Gigartinales

Family — Rhabdoniaceae

— Catenella
Species

Genus

— repens
Salient features :
1. Plants with repent and assurgent branches.
2. Branching is ditrichotomous below, but
clearly pinnate above.

Afforestation
The magnitude of blue carbon can be enhanced
through afforestation programmes on regular
basis. With the growth of the plants, not only the