Cartilaginous, purplish or reddish-brown fronds, to 100 mm high, with narrow, cylindrical, irregularly dichotomously branched stipes arising from small discoid holdfasts and expanding into flat fan-shaped laminae

Similar species: Phyllophora sicula, rasre on southern and western coasts occurs on rock in the extreme lower intertidal in Ireland and England; its fronds are less divided and arise in clusters from a thin, expanded, discoid base frequently buried in sand.

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Larsen, A. & Sand-Jensen, K. (2005). Salt tolerance and distribution of estuarine benthic macroalgae in the Kattegat-Baltic Sea area. Phycologia 45: 13-23.

Loiseaux-de Goër, S. & Noailles, M.-C. (2008). Algues de Roscoff. pp. [1]-215, col. figs. Roscoff: Editions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.

Newroth, P.R. (1971). Redescriptions of five species of Phyllophora and an artificial key to the North Atlantic Phyllophoraceae. British Phycolgical Journal 6: 225-230.

Newroth, P.R. (1971). The distribution of Phyllophora in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions. Canadian Journal of Botany 49: 1017-1024.

Basionym: Fucus pseudoceranoïdes S.G.Gmelin

Type locality: England (Dixon & Irvine 1977: 223).

Lectotype: BM-SL (Newroth & Taylor 1971: 95, fig 3).

Notes: See also Dixon & Irvine (1977: 223).