Plants dark brown to yellowish-brown, with tough rather than rubbery texture, comprising a prominent, woody, conical holdfast bearing one or more main axes that, in turn, bear primary lateral branches with distichous, alternating arrangement of leaves – rarely, second order of lateral branches can be present.
Primary lateral branches slightly compressed at the base, becoming strongly compressed distally and zig-zag in shape, bearing leaves in a bilateral alternative arrangement.Up to 70 cm tall, with the main axis up to 15 cm long.
Recorded from Cape Agulhas to Durban – not uncommon from Port Alfred to southern KwaZulu-Natal, in the shallow subtidal zone.
Seaweeds of the South African South Coast [Oerstedtia scalaris].
F*CK FISH 