The Seaweed Site: information on marine algae

Brown algae (Kelps, wracks, etc.)

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• Alaria esculenta (Dabberlocks, Wing Kelp, Murlins)
• Ascophyllum nodosum (Asco, Sea Whistle, Bladderwrack)
• Asperococcus fistulosus
• Asperococcus bullosus
• Bifurcaria bifurcata (Brown Tuning Fork Weed; Brown Forking Weed)
• Carpomitra costata
• Chorda filum (Dead Man’s Bootlaces)
• Cladostephus spongiosus
• Colpomenia peregrina (Oyster Thief)
• Cystoseira baccata (Bushy Berry Wrack) (see Gongolaria baccata)
• Cystoseira nodicaulis (Rainbow Wrack) (see Gongolaria nodicaulis)
• Cystoseira tamariscifolia (Bushy Rainbow Wrack) now Ericaria selaginoides
• Desmarestia aculeata
• Dictyopteris polypodioides
• Dictyota dichotoma
• Elachista fucicola
• Elachista scutulata
• Ericaria selaginoides (Bushy Rainbow Wrack)
• Eudesme virescens
• Fucus ceranoides (Horned Wrack; Estuary Wrack)
• Fucus macroguiryi (Guiry’s Big Wrack)
• Fucus serratus (Serrated Wrack)
• Fucus spiralis (Spiralled Wrack)
• Fucus vesiculosus (Bladderwrack)
• Gongolaria baccata (Bushy Berry Wrack)
• Gongolaria nodicaulis (Rainbow Wrack)
• Halidrys siliquosa (Podweed, Sea Oak)
• Himanthalia elongata (Thongweed, Buttonweed, Sea Sphagetti)
• Laminaria digitata (Kelp)
• Laminaria hyperborea (Forest Kelp, May Weed)
• Laminaria ochroleuca (Golden Kelp)
• Leathesia marina (Punctured Ball Weed)
• Litosiphon pusillus
• Mesogloia vermiculata
• Myrionema strangulans
• Padina pavonia (Peacock’s Tail)
• Pelvetia canaliculata (Channeled wrack)
• Petalonia fascia (Sea Petals, Broad Leaf Weed)
• Pseudoralfsia verrucosa (Brown Limpet Paint)
• Pylaiella littoralis
• Ralfsia verrucosa (see Pseudoralfsia verrucosa)

• Saccharina latissima (Sugar Kelp; formerly Laminaria saccharina)
• Saccorhiza polyschides (Furbelows, Furbellows, Sea Hedgehog)
• * Sargassum muticum (Japweed, an alien species in Europe)
• Scytosiphon lomentaria
• Spermatochnus paradoxus
• Sphacelaria cirrosa
• Spongonema tomentosum
• Stragularia clavata
• Stypocaulon scoparium
• Taonia atomaria
• * Undaria pinantifida (Wakame)

Red algae (Dulse, Carrageen Moss, etc.)

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• Acrosorium venulosum [also known as Acrosorium ciliolatum]
• Aglaothamnion sepositum
• Ahnfeltia plicata (Landlady’s Wig; Black Scour Weed)
• Ahnfeltiopsis devoniensis (Devonshire Fan Weed)
• Apoglossum ruscifolium
• Asparagopsis armata (Harpoon weed, an alien species in Europe)
• Bangia fuscopurpurea
• Bonnemaisonia asparagoides (Native)
• *Bonnemaisonia hamifera (Bonnemaison’s Hook Weed; an alien species in Europe)
• Bostrychia scorpioides
• * Botryocladia wrightii (Golden Membrane Weed)
• Brongniartella byssoides (Bronginart’s Thread Weed)
• Calliblepharis ciliata
• Calliblepharis jubata (False Eylash Weed)
• Callophyllis laciniata; see Metacallophyllis laciniata
• Catenella caespitosa (Creeping Chain Weed)
• *Caulacanthus okamurae (Okamura’s Pom-Pom Weed)
• Ceramium shuttleworthianum
• Ceramium virgatum (also known as Ceramium rubrum)
• Champia parvula
• Chondria capillaris (Slender Cartilage Weed)
• Chondria coerulescens (Iridescent Cartilage Weed)
• Chondria dasyphylla
• Chondrus crispus (Carrageen Moss, Irish Moss)
• Chondracanthus acicularis (Creephorn)
• * Chrysymenia wrightii see Botryocladia wrightii
• Chylocladia verticillata
• Colaconema caespitosum
• Corallina berteroi
• Corallina caespitosa – see Corallina berteroi
• Corallina officinalis (Corallina)
• Corallina elongata – see Ellisolandia elongata
• Cordylecladia erecta (Erect Clublet)
• Cryptopleura ramosa
• Cystoclonium purpureum (Purple Claw Weed)
• Dasya hutchinsiae
• *Dasysiphonia japonica (Introduced alien; Siphoned Japan Weed)
• Delesseria sanguinea
• Dilsea carnosa (False dulse)
• Drachiella spectabilis (Only subtidal)
• Dudresnaya verticillata (Mostly subtidal)
• Dumontia contorta (Dumont’s Tubular Weed)
• Ellisolandia elongata (A smaller and less common species of Corallina)
• Erythrodermis traillii
• Erythroglossum laciniatum (Mostly subtidal)
• Furcellaria lumbricalis (Black Carrageeen; Clawed Fork Weed)
• Gastroclonium ovatum
• Gelidiella calcicola
• Gelidium pulchellum
• Gelidium pusillum
• Gelidium spinosum (Spiny Straggle Weed)
• Gigartina pistillata (Pestle Weed)
• Gloiosiphonia capillaris (Sticky Tube Weed)
• Gracilaria bursa-pastoris (Shepherd’s Purse Wart Weed)
• Gracilaria gracilis (Slender Wart Weed)
• Gracilaria vermiculophylla (Worm Wart Weed)
• Grateloupia filicina (Grateloup’s Fern Weed)
• Grateloupia turuturu (Devil’s Tongue Weed)
• Griffithsia corallinoides

• Gymnogongrus crenulatus (Norwegian Fan Weed)
• Halarachnion ligulatum (Exclusively subtidal)
• Halopithys incurva [Halopitys incurvus]
• Halurus equisetifolius (Sea Horsetail)
• Halurus flosculosus (Mrs Griffiths’s Little Flower)
• Helminthora divaricata
• *Heterosiphonia japonica (see Dasysiphonia japonica)
• Heterosiphonia plumosa (Siphoned Feather Weed)
• Hypoglossum hypoglossoides
• Hildenbrandia rubra
• Jania rubens
• Jania squamata (also known as Haliptylon squamatum)
• Kallymenia reniformis (Mainly subtidal)
• Laurencia obtusa
• Lithophyllum incrustans
• Lomentaria articulata
• Lomentaria clavellosa
• Lomentaria orcadensis (Orkney Bead-weed; Orkney Weed)
• Mastocarpus stellatus (Grape Pip Weed)
• Meredithia microphylla (Exclusively subtidal)
• Membranoptera alata
• Mesophyllum lichenoides (Pink Plates)
• Metacallophyllis laciniata (Hudson) A.Vergés & L.Le Gall (Fried-egg weed; Beautiful Fan Weed)
• Nemalion multifidum
• Nitophyllum punctatum
• Odonthalia dentata (Primarily subtidal, often in drift in northern areas)
• Osmundea hybrida (Rounded Fern-weed)
• Osmundea osmunda (Pepper Dulse; Royal Fern-weed)
• Osmundea pinnatifida (Pepper Dulse)
• Palmaria palmata (Dulse, Dillisk)
• Phycodrys rubens (Sea Oak)
• Phyllophora crispa
• Phyllophora pseudoceranoides (Stalked Leaf Bearer)
• Phyllophora sicula (Hand Leaf Bearer)
• Phymatolithon calcareum (Maërl, Coral beaches, Coral strands)
• Pikea californica (Pike’s Weed) NEW!
• Plocamium cartilagineum (Cock’s Comb; Red Comb Weed)
• Plocamium maggsiae (Maggs’s Cock’s Comb)
• Plumaria plumosa (Soft Feather Weed)
• Polyides rotundus (Discoid Fork Weed)
• Polyneura bonnemaisonii
• Polysiphonia elongata (Elongate Siphon Weed)
• Polysiphonia stricta
• Pterocladiella capillacea (formerly Pterocadia capillacea; Branched Wing Weed)
• Pterosiphonia parasitica
• Porphyra dioica (Nori, Laver, Sloke)
• Porphyra linearis (Nori, Laver)
• Porphyra umbilicalis (Nori, Laver)
• Porphyrostromium boryanum
• Pterothamnion plumula (Bushy Feather Weed)
• Pterosiphonia complanata
• Ptilota gunneri (Feathered Wing Weed)
• Pyropia leucosticta (Thuret) Neefus & J.Brodie (Porphyra leucosticta)
• Rhodomela confervoides (Straggly Bush Weed)
• Rhodomela lycopodioides (Straggly Tail Weed)
• Rhodothamniella floridula
• Rhodochorton purpureum
• Rhodophyllis invineorum (Great Rose Weed)
• Rhodymenia ardissonei (Spiky Rose Weed)
• Rhodymenia holmesii (Holmes’s Rose Weed)
• Rhodymenia pseudopalmata (Rosy Fan weed)
• Solieria chordalis (Solier’s Red String Weed)
• Schizymenia dubyi
• Schottera nicaeënsis
• Schmitzia hiscockiana
• Sphaerococcus coronopifolius (Berry Wart Cress)
• Sphondylothamnion multifidum (Whorled Bush Weed)
• Spyridia griffithsiana (Hairy Basket Weed)
• Stengoramma interruptum (Papery Fan Weed)
• Vertebrata lanosa
• Wildemania amplissima (Nori, Laver)

Green algae (Sea Lettuce, etc.)

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• Cladophora rupestris
• Codium bursa (Green Sponge Ball)
• * Codium fragile (Spongeweed, Green Sea Fingers)
• Codium tomentosum (Spongeweed)
• Monostroma grevillei
• Prasiola stipitata
• Prasiola calophylla
• Spongomorpha aeruginosa
• Ulva compressa (A kind of Sea Lettuce; a compressed tube-like green alga)
• Ulva intestinalis (A kind of Sea Lettuce; a tube-like green alga)
• Ulva fenestrata (Sea Lettuce) (formerly known as Ulva lactuca in NE Atlantic)
• Ulva linza
• Ulva rigida (Sea Lettuce)
• Umbraulva dangeardii (Sea Lettuce, but olive-green in colour rather than grass-green and often with regular holes)

Seagrasses (A flowering plant, not an alga)

• Zostera marina (Eel Grass; Eelgrass; Seagrass)

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