Description:
É maior que Gymnogongrus griffithsiae, tem uma ramificação mais larga e as extremidades redondas.
Cartilaginous, fleshy, flattened, dark red fronds, to 100 mm high, with short cylindrical stipe from basal disc. Repeatedly dichotomous, branches strap-shaped, apices rounded, often paler than rest of frond. Reproductive structures (known as tetrasporoblasts) appear as external wart-like excescenses.

Habitat:
On sand-covered rocks, lower intertidal, southern and western coasts, often locally abundant.

(In: Seaweed Site - ©Michael D. Guiry - http://seaweed.ucg.ie/descriptions/Gymcre.html)