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Cystoseira osmundacea
Bead Kelp

Photographer: Lovell and Libby Langstroth
Organization: California Academy of Sciences
Collection: CalAcademy

ID: 0000 0000 0405 0671 (2005-04-12)

INFORMATION PROVIDED WITH THE PHOTO

date of photo between 1980 and 1986

location Monterey Bay

family Cystoseiraceae

plant community Marine

notes This is a female reproductive frond of the kelp floating on the surface and phot.ographed in August. It shows the meiotically produced developing eggs. When these are released and fuse with sperm from a male plant another diploid thallus results. The alga's holdfast is anchored to the sea floor. This life cycle contrasts with that of most kelps in which the diploid thallus alternates with a microscopic haploid sexual phase.

camera Nikonos

photo category: Plant - algae

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PLANT

common names Bead Kelp (photographer)

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