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Authority: |
Bory de Saint-Vincent ex Kützing |
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Description: |
Globose tufts of brittle, cartilaginous, narrow, cylindrical, reddish brown to yellowish red fronds, 150 mm long, from small discoid base. Axis simple, branches patent, often opposite, spirally arranged, shorter towards apex giving regular pyramidal outline. Original publication: Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species algarum. pp. [i]-vi, [1]-922. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: F.A. Brockhaus.
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| Name History |
Adjective (Latin), pyramid-shaped (Stearn 1973) |
| Biogeography |
NE Atlantic (From Ireland and Britain to Portugal); NW Mediterranean. |
| References |
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., Furnari, G. & Cormaci, M. (2004). On the occurrence of Laurencia pyramidalis Bory ex Kutzing (Rhodophyta, Rhodomelaceae) in the Mediterranean Sea. Cryptogamie Algologie 25: 329-336. Serio, D., Petrocelli, A., Cormaci, M., Cecere, E. & Furnari, G. (2008). First record of Osmundea oederi (Gunnerus) G. Furnari comb. nov. (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) from the Mediterranean Sea. Cryptogamie, Algologie 29: 119-127. |
| Habitat: |
Usually epiphytic, annual, lower intertidal. |
