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Golden Sea Hair
Dictyosiphon foeniculaceus
Authority:
(Hudson) Greville
North Pacific Distribution:
Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea and Aleutian Is., Alaska, to northern Washington; Japan; Russia.
Phylum:
Ochrophyta
Class:
Phaeophyceae
Order:
Ectocarpales
Family:
Chordariaceae
Former Scientific Names:
Conferva foeniculacea
Description: Thallus is golden brown with multiple orders of branches, which are delicate, progressively narrower, and alternate, opposite or irregular. Thallus is very fine and reaches 20-40 cm (7-16 in) tall. Habitat: This annual grows epiphytically on other seaweeds, attached to rock, or forms free-floating mats in protected and estuarine habitats. The seaweeds Chordaria flagelliformis and Scytosiphon lomentaria are common hosts for this species. Similar taxa: Dictyosiphon, Desmarestia.
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