Scytosiphon lomentaria (Lyngbye) Link

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 : 13

Scytosiphon lomentaria (Lyngbye) Link , nom. cons. 1833

Japanese name: カヤモノリ (kayamonori)

Basionym: Chorda lomentaria Lyngbye

Syntype localities: —“Habitat in infimo refluxus limite ad littoral Faeroensia, ut a Qvivig, copiosa. Ad Hammerhuus Bornholmiae” [Quivig, Faeroe Islands and Bornholm, Denmark].

Description and remarks: —The thalli are bushy, with several individual hollow, air-filled and terete unbranched thalli arising from a common point. The thalli have several constrictions along its axis which creates segments that are 3–5 mm long. Thalli can reach about 10–20 cm high with widths of 1–2 mm. Plants were found on the upper intertidal to shallow zone and attached to rocks via rhizoidal holdfasts. This species is common in early to late spring across Naname and Yokoura.

Materials examined: —18ECS1-162 (1 to 3)

Order Fucales

Family Sargassaceae