Brongiartella byssoides (Goodenough & Woodward) Schmitz
Description: Soft, tufted, deep purplish red
fronds, to 300 mm long. Main axis well-defined, bi- or
tripinnate, bearing alternate, distichous branches. Branches and
branchlets articulated, with central siphon and 5-7 pericentral
siphons, clothed with short, slender, repeatedly dichotomously
branched, monosiphonous ramuli.
Habitat: On stones and shells and epiphytic,
rare in lower intertidal; common in subtidal, spring and summer,
widely distributed, common.
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