Chylocladia verticillata (Lightfoot) Bliding
Description: Soft, gelatinous, cylindrical,
purplish to brown-red fronds (often bleached yellow or almost
white in sunny habitats), to 300 mm long, filled with a watery
mucilage. Main axis simple, jointed, with nodal diaphragms, very
slightly constricted at nodes, 2-several branches per node,
themselves often branched, with small beaded ultimate ramuli.
Very variable in branching pattern, plants of exposed coasts
often simple with small terminal tufts of ramuli.
Habitat: On rocks and stones and epiphytic, mid
and lower intertidal in pools, and shallow subtidal, generally
distributed, common.
Similar species: Gastroclonium reflexum (Chauvin) Kützing, a rare
species with strongly reflexed branches, only on SE and S coasts
of Britain and Ireland; W coast of France, Spain and Portugal,
and western Mediterranean.
Photographs © M.D. Guiry
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