Species:
Fucus ceranoides L.
Høvringstang in Norwegian Bokmål
Horned wrack in English
Classification
The species Fucus ceranoides belongs to:
Photos
Photos of Fucus ceranoides (3):
1 of 3: Habit
![Photo of Fucus ceranoides](/thumbnails/1280x1280/2022/6228af3c9f9da/fceranoides1.jpg)
Note: The species grows intertidally in brackish water. In Norway it typically grows in river mouths, and has a patchy distribution along the coast. Thallus may be up to 30 cm long, is repeatedly dichotomously divided and flat, thin and flexible, It does not carry bladders, but may have inflated parts of thallus. The mid rib is clearly visible. The branches have variable width, even within one individual. The species is dioecious. The receptacles, which form in the end of branches, are likewise of variable shape, but are often dichotomously divided and very pointed.
2 of 3: Receptacles
![Photo of Fucus ceranoides](/thumbnails/1280x1280/seaweedsuibno492e8311ecf54.jpg)
3 of 3: Inflated thallus
![Photo of Fucus ceranoides](/thumbnails/1280x1280/seaweedsuibno492e836abd0e6.jpg)
Closest relatives
Other species in the same genus (Fucus):
- Fucus cottonii Wynne & Magne (2)
- Fucus distichus L. (1)
- Båetang in Norwegian Bokmål
- Two headed wrack in English
- Fucus distichus subsp. evanescens (C. Agardh) H. T. Powell (4)
- Gjelvtang in Norwegian Bokmål
- Fucus serratus L. (5)
- Sagtang in Norwegian
- Serrated Wrack in English
- Fucus spiralis L. (4)
- Kaurtang, Spiraltang in Norwegian Bokmål
- Spiralled Wrack in English
- Fucus vesiculosus L. (3)
- Blæretang in Norwegian Bokmål
- Bladder Wrack in English