English Name: Little fat sausage weed,Little fat sausage weed
Local/Bangla Name: Not Known
Photo: GBIF
Classification:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Order: Rhodymeniales
Family: Champiaceae
Description:
Soft, gelatinous, pinkish red, many-branched, thickly matted fronds up to 100 mm in height with blunt apices. Axes segmented, filled with a watery mucilage, with segments roughly equal in width and length with nodal diaphragms. Reddish-pink in hue.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
St. Martins Island (Silva et al. 1996, Ahmed et al. 2009)