Description: Thallus encrusting, thin and flat growing to 6 cms in diameter, without orbital rings.

Habitat: Quite common. Epilithic on rock, stone, glass, shells etc in the lower littoral and to 8 m depth.

Distribution: British Isles including the Shetland Isles. Europe: France.

Similar Species: Other species of Pneophyllum.

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

iNaturalist: Pneophyllum lobescens at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Pneophyllum lobescens at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Pneophyllum lobescens Y.M.Chamberlain, 1983. AphiaID: 145208.

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