Description:
Thin, flattened, purplish red fronds, with small discoid holdfast and short stipe, to 350 mm high, 0.5-1.5 times as broad as long. Blade obovate, entire or cleft into obovate or wedge-shaped segments.

Habitat: On rock in shady pools, low intertidal and subtidal to nn m, south and west coasts, occasional.

Similar species: Meredithis microphylla.

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