Species:

Spongonema tomentosum (Hudson) Kützing

Tvinnesli in Norwegian Bokmål

Classification

The species Spongonema tomentosum belongs to:

Division:
Ochrophyta (Brown algae, Brown seaweeds)
Class:
Phaeophyceae
Order:
Ectocarpales
Family:
Ectocarpaceae
Genus:
Spongonema

Photos

Photos of Spongonema tomentosum (1):

1 of 1: Habit

Photo of Spongonema tomentosum
Forming a dense cover on an old Fucus Photo: © Kjersti Sjøtun Terms of use
Species
Spongonema tomentosum
Sampling location
Ormhilleren, Øygarden, Hordaland
Sampling date
2021-04-27
Published
2022-03-14

Note: The species grows to around 5 cm tall, is uniseriate and irregularly branched with many relatively short and curved side branches (“hook branches”). Several main axes become strongly intertwined, giving an appearance of a compact thallus (“dreadlocks”). It is a common epiphyte on Fucus but may also grow on rock. It has small stipitate gametangia or sporangia.