Metacallophyllis laciniata (Hudson) A.Vergés & L.Le Gall
Formerly Callophyllis laciniata (Hudson) Kützing
Common name(s): Bautiful Fan weed.
Description: Thick, flattened, subcartilaginous, ±
palmate, deep crimson fronds, to 200 mm high, with short
wedge-shaped stipe from small discoid base. Frond ±
deeply cleft into wedge-shaped segments, themselves divided
subdichotomously, apices rounded, margins smooth or fringed with
minute proliferations.
Habitat: On rock or
Laminaria hyperborea
stipes, rarely in shady pools of the lower intertidal or
subtidal, common, widely distributed mostly on western and
southwestern coasts in Britian and Ireland. Persistant and
common in drift.
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Photographs © M.D. Guiry
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