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Red Comb Weed

Plocamium cartilagineum by Gabriele Kothe-Heinrich is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Plocamium cartilagineum by Gabriele Kothe-Heinrich is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Phylum: RHODOPHYCOTA
Kindom: Plantae
Size: finger length 3-11 cm
Habitats: rock and boulders
Depth: 25 m
Sightings: 16

Description: Plocamium cartilagineum is an erect red alga growing to 10 cm in length. The main axes is flattened with regular flattened branches on both sides. The branches are long and short alternately, the short ones on one side are opposite the longer on the other side. These longer branches bear two or three short curved branches in series, comb-like. The plants are fully corticated. This branching pattern is similar to Plocamium lyngyanum and Plocamium maggsiae the other European species which have only recently been distinguished. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plocamium_cartilagineum

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Red Comb Weed 1992-07-02

Red Comb Weed 1992-07-23

Red Comb Weed 1992-07-22

Red Comb Weed 1992-07-06

Red Comb Weed 1992-07-23

Red Comb Weed 1992-07-23

Red Comb Weed 1992-07-06

Red Comb Weed 1992-07-06

Red Comb Weed 2002-08-23

Red Comb Weed 2002-08-22

Red Comb Weed 1992-06-18

Red Comb Weed 1992-07-23

Red Comb Weed 1992-07-22

Red Comb Weed 1992-07-22

Red Comb Weed 1992-07-23

Red Comb Weed 1992-07-02