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Brown seaweed, with a yellow color. It is a perennial, each year growing new branches up to 50 cm long from a dark brown, cone-shaped base. Simple, or branched, main axis, flattened, has a cross section of 1 cm x 0.5 cm. The side branches are alternate and cylindrical, being arranged in a pinnate fashion. The smallest branches are fine and wiry. It has small aerocysts on the smaller branches, sometimes arranjed in chain. The receptacles are terminal, up to 5 cm long, cylindrical with knot-like swellings and covered with tiny threads. |
Species:
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Cystoseira baccata (S.G.Gmelin) P.C.Silva |
