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Wednesday, July 10, 2024

A local network?

  

Net-of-Cords Kelp (Dictyoneurum californicum

Note the interesting reticulated or network-like patterning.  The blade was in the process of splitting into two through the center.

Dictyoneurum has a distinctive holdfast -- strap-shaped, with haptera (branching root-like structures) on both sides.

 
[This kelp had washed ashore, so I placed it on a rock to take a photo, but this kelp lives much lower in the intertidal zone.]

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