Calliblepharis ciliata (Hudson) Kützing
Description: Flattened, subcartilaginous,
purple-red fronds, to 300 mm long and 20-70 mm wide, lanceolate
or forked, irregularly pinnate; when mature (in summer), the
margins and the surface are covered with short, stiff
proliferations (above). Short cylindrical stipe arises from
creeping, branched holdfast.
Habitat: Larger lower intertidal pools and
subtidal (0-25 m) on stones, maerl and shells, widely
distributed, common in south and west, sometimes frequent in
drift; occasionally abundant on bedrock below the lower limit of
kelp.
Similar species: Calliblepharis jubata is narrower (to
10 mm broad); its marginal outgrowths are long, branched and
entangled, and it is mainly found in pools and in rock in the
lower intertidal.
Notes: Genus name from Greek, kallos (beauty)
& blepharis (eyelash).
Photographs © M.D. Guiry
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