Description: Short unbranched uniseriate filaments or single cells. Loosely attached.

Habitat: Moist banks and woodwork on the shore in estuaries and the shore down to the mid-littoral, also in freshwater.

Distribution: Rarely recorded in the British Isles. Europe: France, Norway and Iceland. Atlantic coast of North America: Canada.

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

iNaturalist: Stichococcus bacillaris at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Stichococcus bacillaris at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Stichococcus bacillaris Nägeli, 1849. AphiaID: 145715.

Classification: Biota; Plantae; Viridiplantae; Chlorophyta; Chlorophytina; Trebouxiophyceae; Prasiolales; Stichococcaceae; Stichococcus