Department:

Rhodophyta

Class:

Florideophyceae

Habitat:

Hard soil

Occurrence:

In warmer and tropical seas in intertidal areas, at depths of 0 to 5 m

Size:

Appearance:

Shrub-shaped, upright, fork-branched, heavily calcified and fragile
Reddish colour in the juvenile stage, later brownish to bluish-greyish-white