Description: This plant is erect, 4-8 cm. tall, profusely and irregularly branched, usually growing in tufts, and dark red to blackish or greenish brown in colour. The branches are cylindrical, about 0.5 mm. in diameter and covered with minute conical spines about 0.5 mm. in length.
Habitat: On rocks in the upper intertidal zone.
Pacific Coast Distribution: Alaska to Mexico.
Robert Scagel, 1972
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- E. muricata with a goose-neck barnacle
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- E. muricata with Mastocarpus cristata
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- E. muricata on rock substrate at Race Rocks
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- E. muricata showing banding while overlapping with F. distichus
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- E. muricata with Halosaccion and hummocks of barnacles. These photos by Ryan Murphy
Phylum: Rhodophyta
Class: Rhodophyceae
Order: Cryptonemiales
Family: Endocladiaceae
Endocladia muricata (Harvey) J. Agardh
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