- Blue markers: specimen records
- Yellow marker: type locality, if present
- Red markers: endpoints of range from literature
Dasya C. Agardh 1824
Thalli erect, radially branched, terete, with 4 or 5 pericentral cells cut off in clockwise sequence, each segment bearing monosiphonous, persistent, pigmented laterals, sometimes branched and occasionally polysiphonous basally; axes corticated. Tetrasporangia in stichidia, tetrahedrally divided. Spermatangia dense on stichidial branches. Procarps arising on third-formed pericentral cell, bearing 1 4-celled carpogonial branch and 2 groups of sterile cells; carposporangia in branching chains; pericarp formed after fertilization, large, usually elongate and beaked.
Pogonophorella californica (J. Ag.) Silva
Pogonophora californica J. Agardh 1890: 33; Kylin 1941: 34. Pogonophorella californica (J. Ag.) Silva 1952: 307; Dawson 1963b: 411.
Thalli 3-10 cm tall, forming loose tufts with creeping basal portions in fine sand, frequently only the terminal dark-red portions with tufted filaments projecting above sand; characters otherwise as for genus.
Locally frequent, saxicolous, in C. Calif. characteristically under Phyllospadix hummocks with loose sand, midtidal to subtidal (to 5 m), Bodega Bay (Marin Co.) to La Jolla, Calif., and Baja Calif. to Pta. Abreojos. Type locality: Santa Barbara, 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.
