| Chylocladia verticillata | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| (unranked): | Archaeplastida |
| Division: | Rhodophyta |
| Class: | Florideophyceae |
| Order: | Rhodymeniales |
| Family: | Champiaceae |
| Genus: | Chylocladia |
| Species: | C. verticillata |
| Binomial name | |
| Chylocladia verticillata (Lightfoot) Bliding | |
Chylocladia verticillata is a medium-sized red marine alga.
Chylocladia verticillata is a marine alga which grows erect to a length of 30 cm from a disk-shaped holdfast. It branches in a whorled manner the thallus is hollow and shows constrictions at intervals, it is mucilaginous, gelatinous, and up to 5 mm broad. In colour it is pinkish or purple. The structure is multiaxial. [1] [2]
Epilithic or epiphytic in the lower littoral in rock pools and in the sublittoral. [1] Commonly found in the Laminarian zone. [3]
This alga is dioecious, cystocarps occur between April and October and tetraspores between May and September. [1] The male structures are arranged around the constrictions. The sporangia are visible in the tissue of the younger branches. [4]
Found around the shares of the British Isles but more rarely on the eastern shores. Also recorded from Norway to Morocco into the Mediterranean including the Canary Isles, [1] also from the Channel Islands. [4]
Champia parvula is not common but small specimens of Chylocladia verticillata may appear similar. [4]
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