Description: Small. Grows from short creeping stolons with a short stipe which flattens to form a parallel-sided blade about 1 cm wide and 10 cms long. May branch once or twice dichotomously.

Habitat: Epilithic in low littoral rock pools and in the sublittoral to 15 m.

Distribution: Generally of western distribution in the British Isles, from Shetland to Scilly Isles. Europe: Mediterranean, Portugal, Spain and France. Further afield: Chile; south and south-west Africa.

Similar Species: Phyllophora sicula; Rhodymenia pseudopalmata.

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

iNaturalist: Schottera nicaeensis at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Schottera nicaeensis at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Schottera nicaeensis (J.V.Lamouroux ex Duby) Guiry & Hollenberg, 1975. AphiaID: 145666.

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