Metacallophyllis laciniata (Hudson) A.Vergés & L.Le Gall
Formerly Callophyllis laciniata (Hudson) Kützing
Description: Thick, flattened, subcartilaginous, ±
palmate, deep crimson fronds, to 200 mm high, with short
wedge-shaped stipe from small discoid base. Frond ±
deeply cleft into wedge-shaped segments, themselves divided
subdichotomously, apices rounded, margins smooth or fringed with
minute proliferations.
Habitat: On rock or
Laminaria hyperborea
stipes, rarely in shady pools of the lower intertidal or
subtidal, common, widely distributed.
Link:
AlgaeBase
Photographs © M.D. Guiry

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