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Description: |
This small alga grows to about 6 cm long: the fronds grow from a branched holdfast are reflexed
and form haptera where they meet the rock. The branches are hollow, terete to 6 cm long and constricted by septa giving a beaded appearance. The secondary branching is dichotomous, distichous. In colour they are dark purplish red. The species is very similar to Chylocladia verticillata with which it may be confused. Spermatangia, cystocarps and polysporangia have been recorded. 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), reflexed, bent sharply backwards |
| Biogeography |
NE and SE Atlantic; Mediterranean |
| 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. Guiry, M.D., Cullinane, J.P. & Whelan, P.M. (1979). Notes on Irish marine algae - 3. New records of Rhodophyta from the Wexford coast. Irish Naturalists' Journal 19: 304-307. |
| Type information: |
Basiony: Lomentaria reflexa Chauvin Syntype localities: various in Calvados, France (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 350). |
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