| Sargassum polyceratium var. ovatum(Collins) W.R Taylor |  | |
| Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus | Species | | Phaeophyta | Phaeophyceae | Fucales | Sargassaceae | Sargassum | polyceratium var. ovatum | | Habitat | | On rocky substratum | | Distribution | | Europe (Turkey), North America (Florida), Central America (Panama), Caribbean Islands (Bahamas, Barbados, Caicos Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, and Virgin Islands), South America (Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela), Southwest Asia (Turkey). | | Depth | | Intertidal to 3 m | | Characteristics | | Plants brown, crowded, leathery, densely branched to 60 cm high. Distinct holdfast, firmly attached to rocky substratum. Main axis developing from holdfast, and up to 3 cm in length. One to several lateral branches developing from main axis, with secondary branching and sometimes tertiary branching as well. Specimens found do not all have spines on lateral branches, a characteristic of the species. Blades closely crowded, curved, with serrated margin, and dispersed surface cryptostomata. Younger branches with blades to 2.5 cm long and 1 cm wide. Fertile branches with blades to 2.0 cm long and 0.8 cm wide. Air bladders without spines to 4 mm diameter, on short alate stalk to 3 mm in length. Receptacles axillary on blades, dichotomously branched, to 6 mm in length. Specimens analyzed were monoecious, with female and male gametangia in separate conceptacles on the same receptacle. | | In Bocas Del Toro | | Locality | Isla Carenero, Flat Rock Beach |
| | Compiled by | | Olga Camacho-Hadad & Jimena Samper-Villarreal | | Images | Bocas Algae: Sargassum polyceratium var. ovatum By:
Olga Camacho, Jimena Samper Villareal |  Bocas Algae: Sargassum polyceratium var. ovatum By:
Olga Camacho, Jimena Samper Villareal |  Bocas Algae: Sargassum polyceratium var. ovatum By:
Olga Camacho, Jimena Samper Villareal |  Bocas Algae: Sargassum polyceratium var. ovatum By:
Olga Camacho, Jimena Samper Villareal |  Bocas Algae: Sargassum polyceratium var. ovatum By:
Olga Camacho, Jimena Samper Villareal |  Bocas Algae: Sargassum polyceratium var. ovatum By:
Olga Camacho, Jimena Samper Villareal |
| | Links | | | Reference | | Tropical Field Phycology Field Book, STRI, Bocas de Toro, 2008. | | Comments | Since the database is a work in progress we would appreciate any comments or additional information we could use to improve this resource |
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