OBSERVATIONS ON GELIDIUM-PUSILLUM (STACKH.) LE JOLIS (RHODOPHYTA) FROM THE COAST OF PAKISTAN

The vegetative, anatomical and reproductive structures of the Pakistan i populations of Gelidium pusillum (Stackhouse) Le Jolis have been inv estigated. The plants showed distinctive features with turf or cushion forming habit; upto 11 mm in length and appear distinctly segmented i n microscope; primary erect fronds terete-compressed below becoming fl at in the upper half; random arrangement of surface cells as well as t etrasporangia; tetrasporangia borne in stichidia-like structures as we ll as on the tips of branch fronds; sexual plants not found; and abund ance of rhizines.