Description: Encrusting, growing to at least 5 cms in diameter, irregular, margin with some orbital redges. Conceptacles raised with flat tops and a low rim.

Habitat: Rare, on rock or shell in the lower littoral or upper sublittoral.

Distribution: British Isles: Wales and Dorset in England. Unknown elsewhere.

Similar Species: Letophytom bornetii has clearly raised rims to the conceptacles and Leptophytum laeve has very large (1 mm) conceptacles. Phymatolithon lenormandii is similar, microscopic examination is required to confirm the determination.

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

iNaturalist: Leptophytum elatum at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Leptophytum elatum at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Leptophytum elatum Y.M.Chamberlain, 1990. AphiaID: 145133.

Classification: Biota; Plantae; Biliphyta; Rhodophyta; Eurhodophytina; Florideophyceae; Corallinophycidae; Hapalidiales; Mesophyllumaceae; Leptophytum