Dichotomous Key of

ChlorophytaPrepared by:

NOE P. MENDEZCENTRAL MINDANAO UNIVERSITY (CMU)

npolomendez@gmail.com

If…Thallus is hollow and tubular, one celled thick.

Thallus is not hollow and tubular. Thallus membranous, and is 2 celled thick.

Thallus sacate, monostromatic with frilled margin

Thallus filamentous, thick cell wall, basal cell long compared with the width.

Thallus filamentous branched, lower branches dichotomous

Thallus feather like branched with precurrent axis, pinnately or radially branched, coenocytic

Thallus filamentous, without forming blade, closely grouped, forming compact spongy thallus

Thallus filamentous, closely fused to form spongy thallus

Thallus coenocystious organized to form stolon and erect branches

Thallus erect, segmented, calcified form flabellated segments

Thallus erect, calcareous, dichotomously branched fan or funnel shaped flabellum

Thallus multi-cellular, calcified, branching in 1-3 whorls at the top of axis

Thallus solitary pear shaped with fluid filled vesicle

Thallus solitary bulb like, clavate vesicle, slightly constricted at the base, vesicle filled with fluid

Thallus solitary forming small colony, whitish green color with hairy tip

E. linza U. intestinalis U. lactuca U. rigida

Ulva (used to be Enteromorpha)

Monostroma

M. grevillei M. nitidumM.

angicava

Chaetomorpha

C. moniligera C. antennina C. aerea

Cladophora

C. albida C. aegagropila linnaei C. glomerata

Bryopsis

B. ramulosa B. plumosa B. pennata

Avrainvillea

A. erecta A. nigricans

Codium

C. tomentosum C. fragile

Caulerpa

C. taxifolia C. racemosa

Halimeda

H. copiosa H. kanaloana

Udotea

U. cyathiformis U. spinulosa

Acetabularia

A. ryukyuensis A. acetabulum

Boergesenia

B. forbesii

Valonia

V. fastigiata V. macrophysa

Neomeris

N. annulata

End of Report