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Corallina Linnaeus 1758
Thalli of crustose bases and articulated, pinnately branched fronds; usually saxicolous, sometimes epiphytic or epizoic. Intergenicular medulla with arching tiers of straight cells of same length. Genicula with single tier of long, thick-walled cells. Conceptacles axial in origin, 1 in each fertile intergeniculum, sometimes bulging from intergenicular surfaces, the pores central. Spermatangial conceptacles beaked, the conceptacular canal 100+ µm long. Fusion cell broad and thin, bearing carposporangial filaments, these mostly on periphery.
Corallina pinnatifolia (Manza) Daws.
Joculator pinnatifolius Manza 1937a: 47; 1940: 263. Corallina pinnatifolia (Manza) Dawson 1953a: 124.
Fronds to 7 cm tall, forming dense clumps; axes densely branched to 1 or 2 orders; axial intergenicula to 1.5 mm long, to 2 mm broad; nonaxial intergenicula sometimes flattened and irregularly lobed to varying extents; conceptacles axial, sometimes also bulging from intergenicular surfaces; tetrasporangial and male plants known.
Common saxicolous, in tidepools, Carpinteria (Santa Barbara Co.), Calif., to Ecuador. Type locality: Orange Co., 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.
