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Description: |
Tough, cylindrical, cartilaginous, shaggy, dark red fronds, 250 mm long. Main branches alternate or subdichomous, simple or pectinate in lower parts, much branched above, often curved and hooked. Branches with usually double row of short, pointed ramuli on upper side, ramuli straight, curved or hooked, slightly narrowed at base. Axis of 1 central, 5 pericentral siphons, with several layers of cortical cells, outermost small, coloured. Articulations visible, shorter than broad. Original publication: Batters, E.A.L. (1902). A catalogue of the British marine algae. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 40(Supplement): 1-107.
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| Name History |
Adjective (Latin), curved inwardly (Stearn 1973). |
| Biogeography |
Warmer NE Atlantic (Ireland to Canary Is); Mediterranean. |
| References |
Maggs, C.A. & Hommersand, M.H. (1993). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 3A. Ceramiales. pp. [i]-xv, 1-444, 129 figs, map. London: HMSO. Phillips, L.E. & De Clerck, O. (2005). The terete and sub-terete members of the red algal tribe Amansieae (Ceramiales, Rhodomelaceae). Cryptogamie Algologie 26: 5-33. 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. |
| Habitat: |
On rock, midtidal pools to subtidal. |
| Type information: |
Basionym: Fucus incurvus Hudson Type locality: Habitat in littore Sussexiano copiose [Sussex, England] (Hudson 1762: 470). Lectotype: ex herb. Pulteney; BM-K (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 305). |
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