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| Curled-tip
red seaweed Portieria hornemannii* Family Rhizophyllidaceae updated Jan 13 Where seen? This seaweed with fans of fine branches with curled tips is sometimes seen on our southern shores on coral rubble. Elsewhere, it is said to prefer clear water, where it is common and a conspicuous element of tropical reef flats. Features: Small (about 5cm in height) made up of flat fans of fine branches that form a net-like pattern. The tips are curled. Dark red to bright red, elsewhere also said to be bright orange. According to AlgaeBase: there are 8 species of Portieria. Features: This seaweed is much studied because it contains a substance that may supress human tumors. |
 Cyrene, Aug 10 |
 Pulau Senang, Aug 10 |
 Pulau Senang, Aug 10 |
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 Sisters Island, May 12 |
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 Tips are curled. |
*Seaweed species are difficult to positively identify without microscopic examination.
On this website, they are grouped by external features for convenience of display.
| Curled-tip red seaweeds on Singapore shores |
| Photos Curled-tip red seaweeds for free download from wildsingapore flickr |
| Distribution in Singapore on this wildsingapore flickr map |
| Portieria
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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