Description: Grows from a small discoid holdfast up to 30 cms long. Flattened and up to 5 mm broad with small pinnate branches.

Habitat: Very rare. Epilithic on sheltered shores in the upper sublittoral to 6m.

Distribution: South-west distribution in Britain and Ireland. Europe: the Mediterranean, Azores, Portugal, Spain and France.

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

iNaturalist: Chondracanthus teedei at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Chondracanthus teedei at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Chondracanthus teedei (Mertens ex Roth) Kützing, 1843. AphiaID: 145624.

Classification: Biota; Plantae; Biliphyta; Rhodophyta; Eurhodophytina; Florideophyceae; Rhodymeniophycidae; Gigartinales; Gigartinaceae; Chondracanthus