Dermonema virens
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Wikimedia Commons - Dawson, E.Y. 1953. Marine red algae of Pacific Mexico. Part 1. Bangiales to Corallinaceae subf. Corallinoidae. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 17(1): 1–239, Plates 1-33.
Wikimedia Commons - Dawson, E.Y. 1953. Marine red algae of Pacific Mexico. Part 1. Bangiales to Corallinaceae subf. Corallinoidae. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 17(1): 1–239, Plates 1-33.
What to Eat
Edible parts: Algae, Frond, Seaweed
The algae fronds and seaweed are eaten.
Where to Find It
It grows in tropical places.
Asia, China, India, Indochina, Japan, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Middle East, North America, Pacific, Philippines, Reunion, SE Asia, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Vietnam, Yemen,
Countries: United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Antigua & Barbuda, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei, Bahamas, Bhutan, Belize, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Micronesia, Grenada, Georgia, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Indonesia, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Jamaica, Jordan, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Kiribati, St Kitts & Nevis, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, St Lucia, Sri Lanka, Marshall Islands, Myanmar, Mongolia, Mauritius, Maldives, Mexico, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Nepal, Nauru, New Zealand, Oman, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Palau, Qatar, Reunion, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Singapore, El Salvador, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Tonga, Turkey, Trinidad & Tobago, Tuvalu, Taiwan, United States, Uzbekistan, St Vincent, Vietnam, Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen
How to Identify
Dermonema virens is a tropical seaweed belonging to the Liagoraceae family, found in warm coastal waters.
Names & Synonyms
Cladosiphon frappieri Montagne & MillardetDermonema frappieri (Montagne et Millardet) Borgesen
References (6)
- Kiple, K.F. & Ornelas, K.C., (eds), 2000, The Cambridge World History of Food. CUP p 236 (As Dermonema frappieri)
- Lee, K.-Y., 1965, Some studies on the marine algae of Hong Kong. 2. Rhodophyta. New Asia College Academic Annual 7:63-110 (As Dermonema frappieri)
- Womersley, H.B. S. & Bailey, A., 1970, Marine algae of the Solomon Islands. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B. Biological Sciences 259:257-352 (As Dermonema frappieri)
- Wang, Wei-Lung and Chiang, Young-Meng, 1994, Potential Economic Seaweeds of Hengchun Peninsula, Taiwan, Economic Botany, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 182-189 (As Dermonema frappieri)
- www.algaebase.org
- Xia, B., and Abbott, I.A., 1987, Edible seaweeds of China and their place in the Chinese diet. Economic Botany 41:341-53 (As Dermonema frappieri)
