Saccorhiza polyschides is kelp species with a distinctive large warty holdfast and a flattened stipe with a frilly margin. The stipe is twisted at the base and widens to form a large flat lamina, which is divided into ribbon-like sections. The species is an annual, and very fast growing. It is opportunistic and colonizes available hard substrata in the sublittoral.

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Link for Algae Handbook (Pereira, 2010).

Original publication: Batters, E.A.L. (1902). A catalogue of the British marine algae. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 40 (Supplement): 1-107.

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Source of hydrocolloids - source of alginate

Medical and pharmacological activity - extracts have cytotoxic and antiplasmodial activity

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

Norton, T.A. (1970). Synopsis of biological data on Saccorhiza polyschides. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No 83: 11-93.

Type information: Syntype localities: Scotland; Cornwall, England (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 907). Type: BM

Homotypic Synonym(s): Fucus polyschides Lightfoot 1777