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Olive Green Winter Laver
Porphyra pseudolanceolata
Authority:
V. Krishnamurthy
North Pacific Distribution:
Aleutian Is., Alaska, to Del Norte County, California.
Phylum:
Rhodophyta
Class:
Bangiophyceae
Order:
Bangiales
Family:
Bangiaceae
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Description: Thallus is an olive green blade, to ~ 30 cm (12 in) long but usually much shorter, one cell layer thick; lanceolate when young, becoming more rotund with age. Male cells are in whitish margins; fertilized female cells are in hieroglyph-like streaks across distal ends of separate female plants. Habitat: This species is restricted to high intertidal bedrock on exposed coasts in winter, surviving into spring or even summer at colder sites. Similar taxa: Porphyra hiberna, which looks identical, replaces this species in Sitka Sound.
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