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Description: |
Thallus erect, light brown with yellow green iridescence, sometimes with dark brown striations. Branching irregular to dichotomous. Branches strapshaped, margin with teeth, often spirally twisted. Medullary cells one layer thick, rectangular. Original publication: Kützing, F.T. (1859). Tabulae phycologicae; oder, Abbildungen der Tange. Vol. 9 pp. i-vii, 1-42, 100 pls. Nordhausen: Gedruckt auf kosten des Verfassers (in commission bei W. Köhne).
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The plants are erect, bushy growing and 6-15 cm high. The branches are strap-shaped, regularly dichotomously divided, 3-6 mm wide, with spines on the margins and obtuse tips. This species is found on rocks and gravel in lower intertidal to subtidal zones along moderately wave exposed shorelines. |
| Biogeography |
Warm E Atlantic (Madeira, Canary Is, W Africa); Caribbean; SW Atlantic (Brazil); SW Pacific; Indian Ocean; Australia. |
| References |
Cronin, G. & Hay, M.E. (1996). Chemical defenses, protein content, and susceptibility to herbivory of diploid vs. haploid stages of the isomorphic brown alga Dictyota ciliolata (Phaeophyta). Botanica Marina 39: 395-399. Rull Lluch, J., Ballesteros, E., Barceló, M.C., Gómez Garreta, A. & Ribera Siguán. M.A (2007). Dictyota ciliolata Sonder ex Kützing (Phaeophyceae, Dictyotales) in the Mediterranean Sea. Cryptogamie, Algol. 28(1): 89-97 |
| Habitat: |
Attached to rock in seagrass bed, and in intertidal pools in moderately high energy habitats. |
| Type information: |
Type locality: La Guaira, near Caracas, Venezuela (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 588). Holotype: MEL 537265 (De Clerck 2003: 165). Notes: Leg. J. Smith (Lipkin & Silva 2002). |
