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| brown seaweeds text index | photo index |
| Seaweeds > Division Phaeophyta |
| Puffy
brown seaweed Colpomenia sinuosa* Family Scytosiphonaceae updated Oct 2016 Where seen? These odd lumpy brown bubbles are sometimes seen on our shores, growing on rocks and coral rubble. In some places, they can dominate small areas for a period of time, turning the location a golden brown. Features: Small bubbles 1-6cm, covering a small area, but sometimes many clumps of bubbles may cover an area of 1m or more. A crisp outer membrane with a smooth somewhat shiny texture, encasing a hollow interior. The seaweed starts growing as a single rounded blob and as it gets bigger may form sheets with irregular wrinkled blobs or puffed up lobes. Colours range from beige to yellowish brown. |
 Cyrene Reef, Aug 12 |
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 Crisp outer membrance encasing hollow interior. Sisters Islands, Nov 05 |
 When submerged may have a fine hairy surface. |
 Tanah Merah, May 09 |
 Labrador, Jan 06 |
 South Cyrene, Oct 10 |
*Seaweed species are difficult to positively identify without microscopic examination.
On this website, they are grouped by external features for convenience of display.
| Puffy brown seaweeds on Singapore shores |
| Photos of Puffy brown seaweeds for free download from wildsingapore flickr |
| Distribution in Singapore on this wildsingapore flickr map |
| Colpomenia
species recorded for Singapore Pham, M. N., H. T. W. Tan, S. Mitrovic & H. H. T. Yeo, 2011. A Checklist of the Algae of Singapore.
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