Mazzaella linearis
(Setchell & N.L. Gardner) S. FredericqDatabase links
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Iridaea lineare (S. & G.) Kyl.
Iridophycus lineare Setchell & Gardner 1937b: 171; Smith 1944: 290. Iridaea lineare (S. & G.) Kylin 1941: 23; Abbott 1970: 2; 1971b: 68.
Thalli in dense tufts, to 0.5 m diam., bases of blades laterally cohering and sometimes furrowed; blades heavy, linear-lanceolate, plane or mostly spiraled, with attenuate apices, these sometimes divided, 0.25-1 m long, 3.5-7 cm broad, entire or with divisions of 2 or 3 lobes, the margins mostly crisped, purplish-brown to dark purple, drying with brown undertone; stipe distinct, 2-5 cm long, subcylindrical, occasionally with fine lateral papillae; tetrasporangial sori small, very closely set; spermatangial blades smooth, paler than other blades; cystocarps inconspicuous.
Locally abundant on exposed coasts, saxicolous, low intertidal, Alaska to Port Hueneme (Ventura Co.), Calif., including Channel Is. Type locality: Carmel, Calif.
Excerpt from Abbott, I. A., & Hollenberg, G. J. (1976). Marine algae of California. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California. xii [xiii] + 827 pp., 701 figs.
