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Pyropia pseudolanceolata

(V.Krishnamurthy) S.C.Lindstrom
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Class
Bangiophyceae
Order
Bangiales
Family
Bangiaceae

Pyropia pseudolanceolata

Olive green winter laver

Authority
(V.Krishnamurthy) S.C.Lindstrom
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.

North Pacific Distribution

Aleutian Islands, Alaska to Del Norte County, California

Former scientific names

Porphyra pseudolanceolata

Similar taxa

Pyropia lanceolata, which looks identical, co-occurs with this species in Sitka Sound.

References

Last updated December 26, 2010

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