Sargassum piluliferum (Turner) C. Agardh, 1820

Belleza, Dominic Franco C., Tateishi, Hiroto, Tanimae, Shin-Ichiro, Kobayashi, Taishun, Aota, Tomoyuki, Urasawa, Toshiki & Nishihara, Gregory N., 2025, An annotated list of brown seaweeds (Phaeophyceae) from Nakadori Island (northern Goto Islands, Nagasaki, Japan), Phytotaxa 694 (1), pp. 1-24 : 15-16

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.694.1.1
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scientific name	Sargassum piluliferum (Turner) C. Agardh, 1820
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Japanese name: マメタワラ (mametawara)

Basionym: Fucus pilulifer Turner, 1808

Type locality: —“Harbour at Nagasaki ”, Nagasaki, Japan

Description and remarks: —Specimens have one or multiple axes growing from a discoid holdfast. The primary and secondary branches are compressed with leaves that are also compressed with faint midribs, sometimes with bifurcate tips. The vesicles are globose to obovoid, attached to stalks 4–5 mm long. This species is common in mid-late spring along sheltered areas of Yokoura and in Naname.

Materials examined: —18ECS1-50 (1 to 6)