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Description: |
Only the morphologically more conspicuous Cutleria-phase is described: thlalus erect, light to yellow-brown, also olive-brown, flattened, membranous, with smooth mergins, deeply incised and repeatedly irregular forking, with linear to wedge shaped sections, gradually narrowing towards the tip and dissected apices, fringed by a tuft of hair-like filaments. Without stipe, rhizoidal discoid holdfast (Braune & Guiry, 2011). Original publication: Greville, R.K. (1830). Algae britannicae, or descriptions of the marine and other inarticulated plants of the British islands, belonging to the order Algae; with plates illustrative of the genera. pp. [i*-iii*], [i]-lxxxviii, [1]-218, pl. 1-19. Edinburgh & London: McLachlan & Stewart; Baldwin & Cradock.
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| Name History |
Adjective (Latin), cleft into many parts |
| Biogeography |
NE Atlantic (Scandinavia to Canary Is); Mediterranean; Indian Ocean; NW Pacific (Japan); SE Pacific (Chile); Pacific Is; Australia. |
| Uses and compounds |
Provide pharmacological activity - relief of gastric ulcers |
| References |
Braune, W. (2008). Meeresalgen. Ein Farbbildführer zu den verbreiteten benthischen Grün- Braun- und Rotalgen der Weltmeere. pp. [1]-596, 266 pls. Ruggell: A.R.G. Gantner Verlag. Fletcher, R.L. (1987). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Vol. 3. Fucophyceae (Phaeophyceae). Part 1. pp. i-x, 1359, 90 figs, 15 pls. London: British Museum (Natural History). Loiseaux-de Goër, S. & Noailles, M.-C. (2008). Algues de Roscoff. pp. [1]-215, col. figs. Roscoff: Editions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff. Peña,V. & Bárbara, I. (2010). New records of crustose seaweeds associated with subtidal maërl beds and gravel bottoms in Galicia (NW Spain). Botanica marina 53: 41-62. Santelices, B., Ramírez, M.E. & Abbott, I.A. (1989). A new species and new records of marine algae from Chile. British Phycological Journal 24: 73-82. Serio, D., Alongi, G., Catra, M., Cormaci, M. & Furnari, G. (2006). Changes in the benthic algal flora of Linosa Island (Straits of Sicily, Mediterranean Sea). Botanica Marina 49: 135-144. Womersley, H.B.S. (1987). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part II. pp. 481, 169 figs, 1 table, 8 plates, 4 maps. Adelaide: South Australian Government Printing Division. |
| Habitat: |
On rocks, usually isolated, subtidal to 10 m. |
| Type information: |
Basionym: Ulva multifida Turner Type locality: Yarmouth, Norfolk, England (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 616). Nomenclatural notes: ee Wynne (2003) regarding the history of the name Ulva multifida and the correct citation of the binomial Cutleria multifida (Turner) Greville, which is usually cited as Cutleria multifida (J.E. Smith) Greville (e.g., Silva, Basson & Moe (1996: 616)). |
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