Description: Small encrusting thallus to 1 cm in diameter, flat and thin. Conceptacles raised.

Habitat: Generally littoral and quite common. Epiphytic on other littoral algae, rarely epilithic.

Distribution: Throughout the British Isles: England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the Channel Islands. Europe: France (Brittany) to Norway.

Similar Species: Other species of Pneophyllum.

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

iNaturalist: Pneophyllum limitatum at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Pneophyllum limitatum at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Pneophyllum limitatum (Foslie) Y.M.Chamberlain, 1983. AphiaID: 145207.

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