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Dudresnaya verticillata (Withering) Le Jolis

Description: Gelatinous, bushy, crimson fronds, to 250 mm long. Central axis polysiphonous, much branched, clothed with close-set whorls of short, repeatedly dichotomously branched monosiphonous ramui, 3-4 mm wide.
Habitat: On rocks, low intertidal (very rarely) and subtidal, often on maërl. Widely distributed; a rare, sporadic summer annual.
Similar species: Schmizia hiscockiana.
Link: Algaebase


Picture © M.D. Guiry

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Dudresnaya verticillata
Picture © Bernard Picton, Ulster Museum

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