Calliblepharis jubata (Goodenough & Woodward) Kützing
Description: Cartilaginous but flaccid, dark
brown-red fronds becoming yellow-brown apically, to 200 mm long.
Stipe gradually beoming compressed, to 100 mm long, from
sparingly branched rhizoidal holdfast. Blade lanceolate, to 10
mm wide, irregularly pinnate, clothed with tendril-like coiled
or hooked processes, to 100 mm or more long in summer.
Habitat: On rocks and epyphytic, especially on
Corallina officinalis
in large open pools, midtidal to shallow subtidal (5 m), common
on southern and western shores, rare in N Ireland and W
Scotland.
Similar species:
Calliblepharis ciliata
is broader (to 50 mm), its marginal proliferations are shorter
and less entangled, and it is mainly subtidal.
Notes: Genus name from Greek, kallos (beauty)
& blepharis (eyelash).
Link:
AlgaeBase
Photographs © M.D. Guiry
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