Description: Small thin flat encrusting thallus, diameter to 2mm, without orbital ridges. Conceptacles domed and raised.

Habitat: Quite common. Epiplytic on other algae, Zostera, hydroids and bryozoa. Mainly littoral but also sublittoral to 7 m.

Distribution: British Isles from scattered sites including the Shetlands. Europe: Mediterranean, Norway. Further afield: Canary Islands, Madeira, India and Pacific Mexico.

Similar Species: Other species of Pneophyllum.

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

iNaturalist: Pneophyllum confervicola at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Pneophyllum confervicola at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Pneophyllum confervicola (Kützing) Y.M.Chamberlain, 1983. AphiaID: 213921.

Classification: Biota; Plantae; Biliphyta; Rhodophyta; Eurhodophytina; Florideophyceae; Corallinophycidae; Corallinales; Corallinineae; Corallinaceae; Chamberlainoideae; Pneophyllum