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Osmundea spectabilis (Sea laurel, red sea fern)
Copyright © 2007 Jan Holmes
This beautiful purplish red seaweed grows to 30 cm. (12 in.) in the lower intertidal of high energy rocky shores. A discoid holdfast leads to two or three orders of branches that are flat and fleshy with blunted tips. The ultimate tips of branches are rounded off. Louis Druehl describes this seaweed as resembling the Osmunda fern which was named after Osmunder, the Saxon god of war!
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page was created by Jan Holmes on 1/21/07.
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