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Scientific classification
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(unranked): | Archaeplastida |
Division: | Rhodophyta |
Class: | Florideophyceae |
Order: | Corallinales |
Family: | Hapalidiaceae |
Genus: | Phymatolithon |
Species: | P. lenormandii
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Binomial name | |
Phymatolithon lenormandii (Areschoug) W.H.Adey
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Phymatolithon lenormandii is a common red alga.
Phymatolithon lenormandii is a thin alga growing encrusting as a thin flat chalky thallus clearly without branches. The thallus grows to 0.6 mm [1] thick with a smooth surface. In colour it is mauvish or pinkish [2] like a thin painted surface forming a patchwork when meeting other incrusting algae. [3]
Common, epilithic on rock and shells in the literal and sublittoral to a depth of 30m, growing best in shady sites. [2] [4]
Monecious or dioecious with conceptacles, carpospogonia and tetrasporangial conceptacles forming raised chambers. [2]
Common around Ireland, Great Britain, Isle of Man and the Channel Isles. [5] In Europe it is recorded from Norway to the Mediterranean. World-wide from Canada USA Mexico, Japan and southern America. [2]