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Purple Pencils
Dumontia alaskana
Authority:
V. Tai, S.C. Lindstrom & G.W. Saunders
North Pacific Distribution:
Aleutian Is. to Southeast Alaska.
Phylum:
Rhodophyta
Class:
Florideophyceae
Order:
Gigartinales
Family:
Dumontiaceae
Former Scientific Names:
Dumontia contorta, D. incrassata, D. filiformis
Description: The dark red to pale pink, partially hollow, contorted, and tubular thallus reaches 27 cm (11 in) tall, with a single order of slightly narrower and shorter, irregularly placed branches. Habitat: A spring annual often gone by June, it is found on rock in mid intertidal tidepools of semi-exposed to protected habitats. Similar taxa: Hollow forms of Palmaria callophylloides have a more papery texture and are usually more proliferously branched.

Comments:
The ocurrence of this species in the western North Pacific needs to be checked; species there are still identified as D. contorta, the North Atlantic species

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