Description: Thallus grows from prostrate axes, with erect fronds to 20 cm, compressed and branching distichously once or twice.

Habitat: Epilithic in the lower littoral and sublittoral to 15m.

Distribution: Generally distributed around the British Isles. Europe: Medirerranean, Portugal, Spain, France and Norway. Malaga.

Distribution Map from NBN: Gelidium spinosum at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Gelidium spinosum at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

GBIF data for Gelidium spinosum

WoRMS: Gelidium spinosum at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Gelidium spinosum (S.G.Gmelin) P.C.Silva, 1996. AphiaID: 145594.

Classification: Biota; Plantae; Biliphyta; Rhodophyta; Eurhodophytina; Florideophyceae; Rhodymeniophycidae; Gelidiales; Gelidiaceae; Gelidium