Asparagopsis taxiformis (Delile) Trevisan de Saint-Léon, 1845
Thalli mostly gregarious, caespitose, dark red, purplish red, or purple-violaceous, with creeping stolons (cylindrical, intricate and irregularly branched) giving rise to erect axes 6-20 cm high. Erect axes stout, sparingly divided, naked below or with the stubs of lateral branches and densely covered with numerous plumose branchlets on all sides above (pyramidal outline). Branchlets soft, delicate, repeatedly alternately divided. Apices extremely fine.
Athanasiadis, A. (1997). North Aegean Marine Algae IV. Womersleyella setacea (Hollenberg) R.E. Norris (Rhodophyta, Ceramiales). Botanica Marina 40: 473-476.
1992
UNA
Growing on hard substrate in low intertidal and upper subtidal, exposed to moderate and strong wave action.
No impact on biodiversity has been reported to date.
Records of Asparagopsis taxiformis
Sites where Asparagopsis taxiformis has been recorded in the Hellenic Sea.