Champia parvula (C. Agardh) Harvey
Description: Soft, gelatinous, pinkish red. Much-branched
fronds, densely matted, with blunt apices, to 100 mm high. Axes
segmented, beaded (below, with cystocarps), with nodal
diaphragms, segments about as broad as long, filled with a
watery mucilage.
Habitat: Epiphytic on smaller algae in lower intertidal
pools and subtidal, south-west England and western Ireland,
Channel Islands, locally common.
Similar species:
Chylocladia verticillata.
Link: Algaebase
Photographs © M.D. Guiry
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