Pseudoralfsia verrucosa (Areschoug) Parente, Fletcher & G.W.Saunders
Other names: Ralfsia verrucosa (Areschoug) J.Agardh
Common name: Brown Limpet Paint
Description: Thallus a blackish-brown to
purplish, patchy, crust. Thallus with a inistinct margin,
formed of erect filaments curving up from a prostrate
system. Filaments fused, not easily separable under
pressure, usually more than 10 cells long each cell with a
single discoid chloroplast. Hairs present.
Club-shaped multicellular (6-12 cells) paraphyses present.
Unilocualr sporangia terminal in sori; plurilocular sporangia
multiseriate, terminal in sori.
Habitat: upper to lower intertidal in pools on
rock and on limpets, particuarly
Patella vulgata (above).
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