Apoglossum ruscifolium (Turner) J. Agardh
Description: Membranous, tufted, bright red fronds, to
100 mm long. Frond with conspicuous midrib and wavy margin, to 6
mm wide, repeatedly branched from midrib, apices blunt. Numerous
microscopic veins, at wide angle from midrib.
Habitat: On rock and epiphytic, lower intertidal and
subtidal, widely distributed, occasional.
Notes: Apoglossocolax pusilla Maggs et Hommersand,
a minute whitish parasite to 2 mm in diameter, occurs very rarely (Dorset in
England; Galway in Ireland; northern Spain) on this
species.
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