Fruticose thallus, erect or pendulous, very variable. Glossy or wrinkled, pale green branches, often scimitar shaped, brittle and little divided above the base. Often fertile with pale fawn discs at ends of branches. Known as 'Sea Ivory'. Very common in the supralittoral, often covering whole faces of rock in a sward of green branches.
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