Phyllophora traillii is a small marine red alga.
Description Phyllophora traillii is a small alga no more than 35 mm long. It grows from a small holdfast and a short stipe up to three mm long which spreads to a small flat blade which is oblong or with parallel sides. It branches once or twice. The fronds are formed with a compact medulla of large cells with a cortex of small cells in two or three layers.Dixon, P.S. and Irvine, L.M. 1977. Seaweeds of the British Isles Volume 1 Rhodophyta Part 1 Introduction, Nemaliales, Gigartinales British Museum (Natural History)
Phyllophora traillii is named for George William Traill a Scottish phycologist and mineralogist.
Habitat To be found growing on rock in the lower littoral into the sublittoral to a depth of 15 m.
Reproduction The gametangial plants are dioecious, that is with separate male and female plants.
Distribution Recorded from Great Britain, Ireland, Faeroes and the Atlantic coast of Europe from Sweden to France. Also from Canada and U.S.A.
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