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Description: |
Tufted, purplish to bleached yellow fronds, filaments uniseriate, corticated below, to 150 mm long. Main axis much branched, irregularly and repeatedly, all thickly clothed with short, repeatedly dichotomous ramuli with wide axils. Articulations 2-3 times as long as broad. |
| Name History |
Adjective (Latin), granulate (Stearn 1973) |
| References |
Kamenarska, Z., Ivanova, A., Stancheva, R., Stoyneva, M., Stefanov, K., Dimitrova-Konaklieva, S. & Popov, S. (2006). Volatile compounds from some Black Sea red algae and their chemotaxonomic application. Botanica Marina 49: 47-56. Maggs, C.A. & Hommersand, M.H. (1993). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 3A. Ceramiales. pp. xv + 444, 129 figs, map. London: HMSO. Serio, D., Alongi, G., Catra, M., Cormaci, M. & Furnari, G. (2006). Changes in the benthic algal flora of Linosa Island (Straits of Sicily, Mediterranean Sea). Botanica Marina 49: 135-144. |
| Habitat: |
Typically epiphytic on Corallina officinalis, also mussels, lower intertidal, on exposed coasts, widely distributed but more common on south and west coasts, largely replaced by C. arbuscula |
| Type information: |
Basionym
Ceramium granulatum Ducluzeau Type information
Type locality: Sètge, Hérault, France (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 384). |
