Morphology and Reproduction of Some Species of Ceramium (Rhodophyta) in Culture

홍조 비단풀속 식물의 실내부양에 따른 형태변화와 생식에 관하여

Ceramium kindoi Yendo demonstrates a Polysiphonia type of life history without diviation in unialgal culture. However, cultures of C. paniculatum Okamura and C. aduncum Nakamura from Kangneung shows considerable phenotypic variations in laboratory. In C. paniculatum, the subulate spines disappear, the transverse cell-rows of corticating bands decrease in number, and the growing direction of corticating cells is changed during the culture. In C. aduncum, a species new to Korea, frond apices become slightly incurved in contrast to strongly rolled ones in the field, and the rows of corticating cells decrease in number and height during the culture. These results suggest that some significant taxonomic characters currently used for identification of Ceramium species are reconsidered.