Acrothrix gracilis

Graceful golden seaweed

Authority: Kylin

Thallus is dark golden in color, up to 30 cm (12 in) tall but usually shorter, slender, branched to several orders, soft but not slippery, smooth to pubescent (hairy), with assimilatory filaments to 20 cells in length.

Habitat

Occurs in the low intertidal and upper subtidal on rock and on docks.

North Pacific Distribution

Alaska Peninsula, Alaska to southern British Columbia; Japan; Russia.

References

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Last updated December 26, 2010

Acrothrix gracilis

Habitat

North Pacific Distribution

References

Photos

Acrothrix gracilis Graceful golden seaweed