Scytosiphon lomentaria has cylindrical, shiny, olive brown, unbranched fronds up to 400 mm long. They have short stalks and a large number may arise from a single discoid holdfast. They widen to 3-10 mm and narrow again near the tip. They are hollow and often have irregular constrictions.

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General for group: most brown algae have an alternation of haploid and dioploid generations; The haploid thalli form isogamous, anisogamous or oogamous gametes and the diploid thalli form zoospores by meiosis. 

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English: Sausage Weed;

Dutch: Saucijsjeswier;

Japan: Kayamonori, sugara, mugiwara-nori.

Basionym: Chorda lomentaria Lyngbye

Syntype localities: Faeroes and Bornholm, Denmark (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 634).

Type: C (Yoshida 1998: 315).

Notes: Womersley (1987: 295) gives the following data: Type from Quivig, Faroe Is; in Herb Lyngbye, C.