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| Spiky
ball seaweed Hypnea pannosa* Family Cystocloniaceae updated Aug 11 Where seen? Dense balls of this seaweed is sometimes seen on some of our Southern shores, growing on coral rubble. Features: Dense bushy balls about 6-8cm in diameter made up of very short cylindrical blades that branch thickly with tapering tips. Colours often blue or bluish, also brown, reddish-brown, orange and green. Usually in small clumps, but sometimes covering a larger area of about 20cm. According to AlgaeBase: there are more than 50 current Hypnea species. Human uses: Some species are fed to livestock, eaten by people, used as fertiliser and believed to have medicinal properties. |
 Pulau Hantu, Aug 04 |
 Sentosa, Oct 03 |
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Spiky ball seaweeds on Singapore shores
 Sentosa, Jul 04  |
 Labrador, May 06  |
 Labrador, Apr 05  |
*Seaweed species are difficult to positively identify without close examination.
On this website, they are grouped by external features for convenience of display.
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species recorded for Singapore Pham, M. N., H. T. W. Tan, S. Mitrovic & H. H. T. Yeo, 2011. A Checklist of the Algae of Singapore.
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