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Plocamium
Sign in to savePlocamium is a genus of red algae in the family Plocamiaceae. It contains around 40 species and has a cosmopolitan distribution in temperate seas, although it is most diverse in the Southern Hemisphere. It is widely distributed in tropical and also warm-temperate and cold-temperate seas, such as northern Europe, the northern Arabian Sea and western Australia. They are also found in the Antarctic regions of Admiralty Bay (maritime Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula) and Terra Nova Bay (in the Ross Sea).
Species
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GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumRhodophyta
- ClassFlorideophyceae
- OrderPlocamiales
- FamilyPlocamiaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,029
- With media
- 603
- Family
- Plocamiaceae
- Collections
- US, NY, MICH, NCU
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, New Caledonia
Research
81 papers- Cytotoxic halogenated monoterpenes from Plocamium cartilagineum.Natural product research · 2017
- Characterization of Plocamium telfairiae Extract-Functionalized Au Nanostructures and Their Anti-Adipogenic Activity through PLD1.Marine drugs · 2022
- Tetrasporophytic bias coupled with heterozygote deficiency in Antarctic Plocamium sp. (Florideophyceae, Rhodophyta).Journal of phycology · 2023
- Occurrence and fate studies (sunlight exposure and stable carbon isotope analysis) of the halogenated natural product MHC-1 and its producer Plocamium cartilagineum.The Science of the total environment · 2020
- Anverenes B⁻E, New Polyhalogenated Monoterpenes from the Antarctic Red Alga Plocamium cartilagineum.Marine drugs · 2019
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Plocamiaceae
- Image
- Plocamium corallorhiza.jpg
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- www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=27
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Plocamium is a genus of red algae in the family Plocamiaceae. It contains around 40 species and has a cosmopolitan distribution in temperate seas, although it is most diverse in the Southern Hemisphere. It is widely distributed in tropical and also warm-temperate and cold-temperate seas, such as northern Europe, the northern Arabian Sea and western Australia. They are also found in the Antarctic regions of Admiralty Bay (maritime Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula) and Terra Nova Bay (in the Ross Sea).
==Description== Plocamium has erect elliptical thalli that grow up to in length. They are bright red in color with strongly flattened delicately branching fronds that further divide into two to five smaller branchlets. Cystocarps (fruiting parts) are either scattered along the frond margins or found on special short fertile branches, and lack a specialized pore for carpospore release. Tetrasporangia are borne in specialized stichidia (branches of the thallus) of various morphologies.
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