Morphological study of three species of Polyphysaceae (Chlorophyta) from southern seashores of Iran (Persian Gulf)

Members of Polyphysaceae (Acetabulariaceae) are very beautiful and attractive unicellular plants which grow on coral reefs of the intertidal regions especially in tropical oceans and seas. In this study morphological features of some collected and identified species of the family from the Iranian seashores of Persian Gulf has been reported. Parvocaulis parvulus, Acetabularia caliculus and Parvocaulis clavatus are three identified species in the studied area which mainly collected from Hormozgan province seashores. Cap forms, number and form of rays, form of corona, hair scars and size of vegetative and reproductive parts of each species were studied after decalcification and results were presented in this paper.