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Pleuroblepharidella japonica

(Okamura) M.J.Wynne
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Florideophyceae
Order
Bonnemaisoniales
Family
Bonnemaisoniaceae

Pleuroblepharidella japonica

False sea brush

Authority
(Okamura) M.J.Wynne
Thallus to ~10 cm (3.9 in) tall, although often shorter, pale reddish brown, often consisting of one or more flattened, ribbon-like axes ~3 mm (0.12 in) wide, branched mostly to a single order, these branches appearing serrate due to undeveloped laterals or developing further in the same pattern; overall aspect pyramidal (i.e., lower branches longer than more distal branches).

Habitat

Subtidal, epiphytic on Ptilota and Odonthalia spp.

North Pacific Distribution

Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, Alaska; Russia

Former scientific names

Odonthalia japonica, Pleuroblepharis japonica, Pleuroblepharis stichidophora

Similar taxa

This species superficially resembles Nienburgia prolifera.

References

Last updated December 26, 2010

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