Prionitis lanceolate in the author’s hand. Photos by Ryan Murphy
Description: This plant is erect, up to 30 cm. tall, reddish brown in colour, growing in clusters, and attached to the substrate by small discoid holdfast. The erect portion is narrowly stipitate below, tapering above to a flattened lanceolate portion. The apices of the branches taper gradually to a point. Numerous proliferous flattened short pinnately arranged branchlets occur along the margins of the main axes
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- P. lanceolate healthy and bleached
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- P. lanceolate with a geniculate rhodophyte
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- P. lanceolate in a tide pool
Classification:
Phylum: Rhodophyta
Class: Rhodophyceae
Order: Cryptonemiales
Family: Cryptonemiaceae
Prionitis lanceolata (Harvey)
Habitat: On rocks in the lower intertidal and upper subtidal zones
Pacific Coast Distribution: Alaska to Mexico. Robert Scagel, 1972
Other Rhodophytes or Red Algae at Race Rocks
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