Red seaweeds key

How to use the key

Find the category that fits best for the specimen you want to identify:

1

Crusts or cover on rock, or rugged or loose-laying irregularly branched lumps of calcified algae go to subkey

2

Thallus upright with round (or rounded) axis or axes in cross section,
not flat in any part go to subkey

3

Thallus upright and flat or with some flat or flattened parts go to subkey