Description: A dichotomously or irregularly devided blade rising from a branched holdfast with a stipe up to 5 cms long. Blade generally less than 7 cm broad and up to 30 cms long with long marginal branchlets up to 3 cms long. Some branchlets may be elongated and hooked at the tips.

Habitat: Epilithic or epiphytc. In pools in the low littoral into the upper sublittoral.

Distribution: British Isles with a south western distribution, south-western coast of Scotland, around Ireland, Wales along the south-west coast of England, Isle of Man. Europe: Mediterranean, Portugal, Spain, France and as drift in the Netherlands.

Similar Species: Calliblepharis ciliata however C.jubata has longer profilerations from the blade normally more than 3 cms.

Key Identification Features:

• Long proliferations on the blade.

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

iNaturalist: Calliblepharis jubata at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Calliblepharis jubata at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Calliblepharis jubata (Goodenough & Woodward) Kützing, 1843. AphiaID: 145614.

Classification: Biota; Plantae; Biliphyta; Rhodophyta; Eurhodophytina; Florideophyceae; Rhodymeniophycidae; Gigartinales; Cystocloniaceae; Calliblepharis