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Authority: |
(C.Agardh) Maggs & Hommersand |
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Description: |
Thick, soft, deep crimson to rose fronds, turning orange in fresh water. Fronds translucent, flattened, fan-shaped, to 300 mm long. Stipe to 6 mm long, from flattened discoid base. Blade simple to deeply cleft into wedge- or ribbon-shaped segments, margin proliferous, undulate. Venation palmate, no distinct midrib, veins anastomosing. Microscopic veins present in younger parts. |
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Taxonomic notes
Guiry (1997) notes this species should not be confused with Haraldiophyllum bonnemisonii; see Maggs & Hommersand (1993). |
| Habitat: |
Marine species, on rock, deep lower intertidal pools often on Laminaria hyperborea stipes, summer and autumn, widely distributed but commoner on southern and south-western shores |
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Basionym
Delesseria bonnemaisonii C.Agardh Type information
Type locality: Ad Finisterre Armoricae [Brittany]. Specimina misit Bonnemaison. (Agardh 1822: 186). |
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