Scytosiphon lomentaria (Lyngbye) Link
Description: Plants cylindrical,
yellowish-brown or dark brown, to 400 mm long. Unbranched, 3-10
mm wide, narrowing at both ends, attached by a short stalk.
Hollow and often with irregular constrictions.
Habitat: most common in upper-shore pools
growing on limpets; on rock on wave-exposed shores, where
another, more rare entity,
Scytosiphon dotyi occurs.
Key characteristics: Hollow and often
irregularly constricted; but beware narrower plants with no or
very few constrictions (below).
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