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Name derivation: |
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Fucus =Gr. fucus: from seaweed, also fuco: to color or dye; the red color from a rock lichen Fucus vesiculosus= L. vesicularis: with little bladders or blisters common names: bladder Fucus, bladder wrack, cut weed, kelp ware, paddy tang, pigweed, poppers, rockweed, sea wrack |
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Classification:
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Fucus Linnaeus, 1753: There are currently 1047 specis of which 15 have been taxonomically accepted.
Order Fucales; Family Fucaceae |
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Morphology: |
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A flattened blade with a central midrib; typically dichotomously branched and with paired air bladders that contain carbon monoxide (along with other gasses). The plant’s morphology can be extremely variable due to injury, vegetative proliferation, phenotypic plasticity, etc. |
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Ascophyllum nodosum |
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Habitat: |
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A lithophytic species found in semi-exposed to sheltered sites; typically it grows more abundantly than Ascophyllum nodosum in these semi-exposed sites. |
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References: |
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Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. Vol. 2 pp. [i], 561-1200, [1-30, index], [i, err.]. Holmiae [Stockholm]: Impensis Laurentii Salvii. Guiry, M.D., and G.M. Guiry 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 16 January 2013. Taylor, W. R. 1957. Marine Algae of the Northeastern Coast of North America. Revised edition. Univ. Michigan Press., Ann Arbor, ix + 509 pp. |
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