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Description: |
Rather crisp, bushy, crimson to brownish red fronds, to 100 mm long. Branches numerous, irregular, densely clothed with stiff, patent, repeatedly dichotomous monosiphonous rauli. Ramuli to 20 um diam., with blunt apices, cells 3-4 times as long as broad. Main axis with central siphon and 5 pericentral siphons, corticated. Original publication: Harvey, W.H. (1833). Div. II. Confervoideae; Div. III. Gloiocladeae. In: The English Flora of Sir James Edward Smith. Class XXIV. Cryptogamia. Vol. V. (or Vol. II of Dr. Hooker's British flora). Part I. Comprising the Mosses, Hepaticae, Lichens, Characeae and Algae. (Hooker, W.J. Eds), pp. 263-265, 265-266, 326-389, 389-405. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Paternoster-Row.
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| Name History |
Named for Ellen Hutchins, Irish Botanist. |
| 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. Pena, V. & Bárbara, I. (2006). Revision of the genus Dasya (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) in Galicia (NW Spain) and the addition of a new alien species Dasya sessilis Yamada for the European Alantic coasts. Anales del Jardin Botánico de Madrid 63(1): 13-26, 6 figs, 2 tables |
| Habitat: |
Marine species, on rocks or epiphytic, shady low intertidal pools and subtidal. |
