title: Ceramium strictum
text: # Ceramium strictum
  
  Ceramium strictum is a small marine red alga.
  
  ## Description
  
  This alga grows in tufts to a length of no more than 12 cm long. It is densely branched but not completely corticate appearing to have a banded or collar-like appearance. The apices of the axes are strongly inrolled. The branches do not have spines. Rhizoids are numerous.
  
  ## Reproduction
  
  Cystocarps containing carposporangia and tetrasporangia are borne on the erect thalli.
  
  ## Habitat
  
  Epiphytic on other algae and mussels in the littoral.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  Southern and western coasts of England and Ireland. In Europe from Norway to France and the Azores.
  
  ## Nomenclature
  
  The validity of the name Ceramium strictum is as yet unsure.
  
  