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Authority: |
(J.Ellis) Maggs & Hommersand |
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Description: |
Rather rigid, tufted, uniseriate, ecoritcate, bright red filaments, to 200 mm long. Repeatedly ± dichotomously branched, with frequent short branchlets, axils very acute. Articulations cylindrical, 5-6 times as long as broad in lower parts, shorter distally. Link for Algaebase |
| Name History |
Adjective A (Latin), wooly, somewhat wooly, or fluffy. |
| References |
Braune, W. (2008). Meeresalgen. Ein Farbbildführer zu den verbreiteten benthischen Grün- Braun- und Rotalgen der Weltmeere. pp. [1]-596, pls 1-266 (colour photographs). Ruggell: A.R.G. Gantner Verlag. Loiseaux-de Goër, S. & Noailles, M.-C. (2008). Algues de Roscoff. pp. [1]-215, col. figs. Roscoff: Editions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff. Schories, D., Selig, U. & Schubert, H. (2009). Species and synonym list of the German marine macroalgae based on historical and recent records. Rostocker Meeresbiologische Beiträge 21: 7-135. |
| Habitat: |
Marine species, on rocks in shady intertidal pools. |
| Common names: |
English: Mrs Griffiths's Little Flower |
| Type information: |
Basionym
Conferva flosculosa J.Ellis Type information
Type locality: Yarmouth, Norfolk, England (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 175). Lectotype: Ellis’s (1768, pl. 18, fig. E) illustration (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 175). |
