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Solieria chordalis (C.Agardh) J.Agardh

Common name: Solier's Red String Weed.
Description: Plants firm and cartilaginous, bright red, to 200 mm long; fronds initiallyirregularly dichotomous with with many seemingly adventitious laterals giving the thallus an irregularly pinnate appearance. Fronds narrowing at the point of attachment; cylindrical or slightly compressed.
Habitat: On rocks, stones and pebbles. Generally found in wave-sheltered habitats where silt accumulates but favouring situations with some current movement
Distribution: currently unknown in Ireland; in Britain where it it is likely to have been introduced as it is only known since 1976, it is known from a few localities in Pembrokeshire, Cornwall, and Dorset. Extending south to Morocco and the Canary Islands. Records from elsewhere are unlikley to be correct.
Similar species: Gracilaria gracilis and Cystoclonium purpureum.
Link: AlgaeBase.
Photographs: Newton's Cove, Weymouth, Dorset, England; intertidal © David Fenwick

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