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Species: |
Calliblepharis hypneoides |
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Authority: |
P. Díaz-Tapia, I. Bárbara & M.H. Hommersand |
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Description: |
Differs from its congeners and Hypnea in forming compact cushion-like turfs up to 7 cm high, attached by a basal system of entangled axes with peglike projections; upright axes terete, non-percurrent, and irregularly branched; axes with a central axial filament surrounded by 5–7 filaments of elongated cells, two layers of rounded cells, one layer of inner cortical cells, and a thin layer of uniformly distributed outer cortical cells. Link |
| Biogeography |
Atantic Iberian Peninsula (Spain, Portugal), France |
| References |
Díaz-Tapia, P., Boo, S.M., Geraldino, P.J.L., Maneiro, I., Bárbara, I. & M.H. Hommersand (2013). Morphology and systematics of Calliblepharis hypneoides, sp. nov. (Cystocloniaceae, Rhodophyta) from the Atlantic Iberian Peninsula . European Journal of Phycology 48(4): 380-397. |
| Habitat: |
on sand-covered rocks or overgrowing other turf-forming species; lower intertidal to upper subtidal of wave extremely to moderately wave exposed sites |
| Type information: |
Holotype locality: Aguilar Beach (43º33'28"N, 6º07'07"W), Asturias, Spain (Díaz-Tapia et al. 2013) |
