Enter Search Terms:
Genus (i.e. Fucus)
Species (i.e. Gardneri)
Common Name (i.e. Rock Weed)
Phylum (i.e. Ochrophyta)
All of the above
Sea Fern Fringe
Hymenena ruthenica
Authority:
(Postels et Ruprecht) Zinova
North Pacific Distribution:
Bering Sea and Aleutian Is. to Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska; Russia.
Phylum:
Rhodophyta
Class:
Florideophyceae
Order:
Ceramiales
Family:
Delesseriaceae
Former Scientific Names:
Description: Thallus is a thin, papery blade of deeply lacerated, wedge-shaped segments to at least 20 cm (8 in) in height and 3 cm (1.2 in) wide. Blades are frequently fertile, with either cystocarpic bumps or small, elliptical tetrasporangial sori. Habitat: This species is often epiphytic on Neoptilota asplenioides as well as other algae in the low intertidal and subtidal of semi-exposed habitats. Similar taxa: Callophyllis, Kallymeniopsis, Palmaria.
Click on a thumbnail to view larger version