Description:
Soft, cylindrical, crimson to brownish red fronds, to 200 mm (usually much shorter). Much branched, axes constricted into bead-like portions, ramuli at nodes, often whorled. Base of creeping rhizoidal filaments.

Habitat:
Comum em fendas na zona-entre-marés.
On rocks and stones in pools, lower intertidal and subtidal, generally distirbuted, frequent.