Cryptopleura ramosa (Hudson) Kylin ex Newton
Description: Thin, membranous, brownish red fronds, to
200 mm long. Frond ± dichotomously divided, becoming
irregular in upper parts. Frond with spots of iridescence, with
undulate, often proliferous margins, sometimes with flattened
hooks or with rhizoidal attachment processes. Very variable in
growth form and often mididentified. It is the commonest intertidal and shallow subtidal Delesseriaceae seaweed in the NE Atlantic.
Habitat: On rock, generally epiphytic, and
Laminaria hyperborea stipes, lower intertidal and subtidal to 32 m, generally
distributed, common.
Notes: Gonimophyllum buffhamii, a minute parasite,
occurs rarely on subtidal plants of Cryptopleura on
southern and western coasts.
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