title: Phyllophora traillii
text: # Phyllophora traillii
  
  Phyllophora traillii is a small marine red alga.
  
  ## Description
  
  Phyllophora traillii is a small alga no more than 35 mm long. It grows from a small holdfast and a short stipe up to 3 mm long which spreads to a small flat blade which is oblong or with parallel sides. It branches once or twice. The fronds are formed with a compact medulla of large cells with a cortex of small cells in 2 or 3 layers.
  
  Phyllophora traillii is named for George William Traill a Scottish phycologist and mineralogist.
  
  ## Habitat
  
  To be found growing on rock in the lower littoral into the sublittoral to a depth of 15 m.
  
  ## Reproduction
  
  The gametangial plants are dioecious, that is with separate male and female plants.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  Recorded from Great Britain, Ireland, Faeroes and the Atlantic coast of Europe from Sweden to France. Also from Canada and U.S.A.
  
  