Ceramium virgatum

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Ceramium virgatum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Clade: Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Order: Ceramiales
Family: Ceramiaceae
Genus: Ceramium
Species:
C. virgatum
Binomial name
Ceramium virgatum
Roth

Ceramium virgatum, or the red hornweed, is a small red marine alga.

This small alga grows erect with cylindrical filamentous axes.[1] It is repeatedly branched, corticate and grow to 30 cm long.[2] Very difficult to identify from some other species.[1]

Habitat

Common in rock pools[2] and in the upper sub-littoral in a wide range of habitats.[1]

Distribution

Nomenclature

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