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Occurrence and Habitat of AlgaeReporter:
Adrian Fabian Alcaraz
Proud BS Bio 4A
Algae are found in water of river, ponds, ditches, pools, sea and on moist places like tree trunks, flower pots, telegraph posts or in association with other plants and animals.
They have been recorded from snow, hot springs, tide pools and other unusual habitat.
Edaphophytes Aerophytes Cryophytes
Endophytes Symbiotic Endozoophytes Parasites
Hydrophytes
I. HydrophytesThey are either submerged
or free floating on the surface of water.
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Benthophytes Epactiphytes Thermophytes Planktophytes
Halophytes Epiphytes Epizoophytes
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BenthophytesThey grow on mud or on
bottom of a body of water.
Chara Nitella
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EpactiphytesAlgal forms growing along
shores of lakes and ponds.
Chaetophora Oedogonium Rivularia
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ThermophytesFound on hot springs of many
countries.
Chroococcaceae
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Euplanktophytes
PlanktophytesAlgal forms float on surface
of water.
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Tychoplanktophytes
EuplanktophytesAlgae that floats in open
water.
Diatoms Chlorococcales
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Algal forms unattached and floating on water due to wind or outside agency.
Spirogyra Zygnema
Tychoplanktophytes
Nostoc
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Algae of waters of high salt concentration.
Dunaliella salina Prasiola
Halophytes
Ulva
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Algae growing on other plants and bigger algal members.
Bulbochaete Oedogonium
Epiphytes
Coleochaete
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Algae growing mollusc shells, fishes, turtles.
Protoderma Characium
Epizoophytes
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II. EdaphophytesTerrestrial algae. They may occur
on or under soil. (subterranean algae)
Saphophytes Cryptophytes
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SaphophytesFound on the surface of soil.
Botrydium Vaucheria
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CryptophytesSubterranean algae which can
grow upto a depth of one meter or more.
Chlorella
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III. AerophytesAlgae found in aerial habitat. They
live on moist rocks, walls, tree trunks, fencing wires, telegraph poles, animals and other aerial substrata.
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Epiphyllophytes Epiphloephytes
Epizoophytes Lithophytes
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Epiphytic alga found on leaves of other plants.
Epiphyllophytes
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Trentepohlia Cephaleuros
Grow on bark of trees along with mosses and liverworts.
Scytonema
Epiphloephytes
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These forms grow on the bodies of land animals.
Cladophora
Epizoophytes
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Grows on rocks and walls.
Lithophytes
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Stigonema Calothrix
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IV. CryophytesThese algae grow on ice and snow adapting
themselves at freezing temperatures. They impart various colours like red, green and yellow to the snow.
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Chlamydomonas
V. EndophytesThese are algae which grow within
other plants.
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Anabaena Nostoc
VI. SymbioticMany algal forms show symbiotic
relationship with fungi and this association is called Lichens.
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Lichens
VII. EndozoophytesCertain algae occur inside the body
of animals.
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Zoochlorella
VIII. ParasitesSome algae are parasitic upon other
plants.
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Cephaleuros