Asparagopsis taxiformis

Thalli mostly gregarious, caespitose, dark red, purplish red, or purple-violaceous, with creeping stolons (cylindrical, intricate and irregularly branched) giving rise to erect axes 6-20 cm high. Erect axes stout, sparingly divided, naked below or with the stubs of lateral branches and densely covered with numerous plumose branchlets on all sides above (pyramidal outline). Branchlets soft, delicate, repeatedly alternately divided. Apices extremely fine. Growing on hard substrate in low intertidal and upper subtidal, exposed to moderate and strong wave action.

In tropical and subtropical waters of Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Common in Asia-Pacific countries: Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia and New Zealand, Pacific Islands.