Description: Thallus grows to 30 cms long, the branches becoming flattened and proliferating from the edges.

Habitat: Epiphytic in the low littoral and upper sublittoral.

Distribution: Very rare, recorded in the British Isles only in the south-west of England only unattached plants known from Ireland. Europe: Mediterranean. Further afield: Canary Islands, Ghana.

Similar Species: Palmaria palmata.

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

iNaturalist: Gracilaria multipartita at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Gracilaria multipartita at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Gracilaria multipartita (Clemente) Harvey, 1846. AphiaID: 145704.

Classification: Biota; Plantae; Biliphyta; Rhodophyta; Eurhodophytina; Florideophyceae; Rhodymeniophycidae; Gracilariales; Gracilariaceae; Gracilarioideae; Gracilarieae; Gracilaria