- Blue markers: specimen records
- Yellow marker: type locality, if present
- Red markers: endpoints of range from literature
Cryptonemia ovalifolia Kyl.
Kylin 1941: 11; Smith 1944: 241; Abbott 1967a: 145.
Thalli 4-5(8) cm tall, bluish-red, with inconspicuous stipes, mostly broadly ovate, rarely lobed, the margins entire or crisped; blade 60-120 µm thick, with few periclinal medullary filaments; refractive cells common; cortex of 2 or 3 cell layers; tetrasporangia and gonimoblasts as in other species.
Abundant where found, in dense, overlapping clusters in shaded overhangs along channels, Cape Arago, Ore., and Farallon Is. and Monterey Peninsula to Little Sur River (Monterey Co.), Calif. Type locality: Pt. Pinos (Pacific Grove), 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.
