UC specimens and range limits for Mazzaella flaccida

• Blue markers: specimen records
• Yellow marker: type locality, if present
• Red markers: endpoints of range from literature

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Iridaea flaccida (S. & G.) Silva

Iridophycus flaccidum Setchell & Gardner 1937b: 171; Smith 1944: 288. Iridaea flaccida (S. & G.) Silva 1957a: 328; Abbott 1971b: 64; 1972a: 253.

Blades narrow in proportion to length, 20-30(140) cm long, 8-20 cm wide, broadly lanceolate or cordate-obovate, the apices tapering, or apices forked or cleft, yellowish-green, with iridescent purples and browns in basal portion and in portions shaded from light; stipes less than 2 cm long, to 0.75 cm wide; apophyses cuneate to flaring; tetrasporangial blades with continuous or interrupted nonsporangial margin; spermatangial thalli pale yellow; cystocarps inconspicuous, externally resembling tetrasporangial sori.

Locally abundant, saxicolous, midtidal to low intertidal, Alaska to N. Baja Calif., including Channel Is.; in C. Calif., the most conspicuous and common of bladelike red algae in midtidal levels. 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.