Description: Several blades grow from a single crustose holdfast of up to 2 cms in diameter to produce erect fronds up to 7 cms long. Stipe about one third of the total length abruptly branches once or twice to produce a flat blade.

Habitat: Rare. Epilithic in lower rock pools and in the sublittoral to 15 m.

Distribution: A southwestern species in the British Isles. Recorded as far north as Anglesey, south west of England and the south coast of Ireland. Europe: Mediterranean, Portugal and Spain.

Similar Species: Rhodymenia pseudopalmata; Coccotylus truncatus. Schottera nicaeensis.

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

iNaturalist: Phyllophora sicula at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Phyllophora sicula at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Phyllophora sicula (Kützing) Guiry & L.M.Irvine, 1976. AphiaID: 145665.

Classification: Biota; Plantae; Biliphyta; Rhodophyta; Eurhodophytina; Florideophyceae; Rhodymeniophycidae; Gigartinales; Phyllophoraceae; Phyllophora