BRYOPSIDACEAE, Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1829

Coppejans, Eric, Leliaert, Frederik, Verbruggen, Heroen, de Clerck, Olivier, Schils, Tom, de Vriese, Thomas & Marie, Daniel, 2004, The marine green and brown algae of Rodrigues (Mauritius, Indian Ocean), Journal of Natural History 38 (23), pp. 2959-3020 : 2976

BRYOPSIDACEAE Bryopsis Lamouroux

Key to the species from Rodrigues

1 Plants small, 1–3 cm, plumule oblongate to ovate, 1–3 mm broad and 2–8 mm long...................... B. indica

– Plants larger, plumule linear-lanceolate, sometimes bent......... 2

2 Main axis generally curved, ramuli unilateral or partly distichous, but then the curvature of the ramuli from the most dense row parallel with the main axis, those from the sparsely set row incurved........ B. pennata var. secunda

– Main axis mostly straight, ramuli clearly distichous, on two opposite (sometimes double) rows...................... 3

3 Plumule not interrupted by bare parts....... B. pennata var. pennata

– Plumule interrupted by bare parts without ramuli... B. pennata var. leprieurii