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Systematic position
Division - Thallophyta
Class - Rhodophyceae
Order - Nemalionales
Family - Batrachoepermaceae
Genus - Batrachospermum
• It is found in clear, cool and running streams (fresh water).
• Deep water plants are dark violet or reddish in colour. But the shallow water species are olive green. The intensity of light changes the colour of pigments.
• The thallus is attached to the substratum. Mostly they are annual but few perennial. Batrachospermum includes 5 species in India and all are fresh water alga.
• B. moniliformae cosmopolitan in distribution