Description: Minute filaments bearing erect branches creeping on other algae or between the cells, as tufts on Ascophyllum.

Habitat: Rare. Epiphytic in the littoral.

Distribution: Few records around the British Isle, Ireland, England, Wales and the Shetlands. Europe: France.

Similar Species: Other species of Streblonema and other minute algae.

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

iNaturalist: Streblonema breve at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Streblonema breve at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Streblonema breve (Sauvageau) De Toni, 1895. AphiaID: 145460.

Classification: Biota; Chromista; Harosa; Heterokonta; Ochrophyta; Phaeophyceae; Fucophycidae; Ectocarpales; Chordariaceae; Streblonema