Corallina officinalis
Summary 6
Corallina officinalis is a calcareous red seaweed which grows in the lower and mid-littoral zones on rocky shores.
Morphology 7
Articulated coralline with disk shaped crustose holdfast.Color ranges from whitish, pinkish to purplish. Usually 10-15cm tall with oppositely pinnate branches getting progressively shorter near the apex. Branches typically lie on 1 plane with flat, non-winged, intergenicula. Intergenicula are more tall than broad. C.officinalis var. Chilensis is typically taller, more flat, and less densely branched compared to C.pinnatifolia and C.vancouveriensis.
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- (c) anonymous, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://www.biopix.com/photos/JCS-Corallina-officinalis-64684.JPG
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- (c) 2005 California Academy of Sciences, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=166383&one=T
- (c) rattyfied, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/46325182@N00/5624388680
- Adapted by Eugenio Leyva Figueroa from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corallina_officinalis
- (c) ifkhajawall, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/760221
More Info
- iNat taxon page
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- HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
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