Description: Thallus small, 2 cms long, monostromatic, spoon-shaped, narrows to a short stipe and attached by rhizoids to the surface. Cells arranged in small groups in transverse and longitudinal rows.

Habitat: Marine, on rock as a turf above high water.

Distribution: Irregularly recorded generally around the British Isles. Europe: Helgoland, Baltic Sea, Norway, Sweden, Faroes and Iceland.

Similar Species: Other species of Prasiola.

Key Identification Features:

• Small, monostromatic with a very short stipe.

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

iNaturalist: Prasiola furfuracea at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

WoRMS: Prasiola furfuracea at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Prasiola furfuracea (Mertens ex Hornemann) Trevisan, 1842. AphiaID: 145799.

Classification: Biota; Plantae; Viridiplantae; Chlorophyta; Chlorophytina; Trebouxiophyceae; Prasiolales; Prasiolaceae; Prasiola