List of red seaweeds of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay

===Order: Bangiales=== ====Family Bangiaceae==== • Bangia atropurpurea (Mertens ex Roth) C.Agardh 1824, syn. Conferva atropurpurea Mertens ex Roth 1806, Oscillatoria atropurpurea (Roth) C.Agardh 1817, Bangia fuscopurpurea var. atropurpurea (Roth) Lyngbye 1819, Bangia atropurpurea (Mertens ex Roth) C.Agardh 1824, Bangiella atropurpurea (Roth) Gaillon 1833, Bangiadulcis atropurpurea (Roth) W.A.Nelson 2007, (Cosmopolitan) • Purple laver, Porphyra capensis Kützing 1843, (Abundant on whole of west coast extending into Namibia and along south coast of Western and Eastern Cape. Endemic) (Cape of Good Hope to Brandfontein) (Hondeklip Bay and Olifantsbos, endemic) (Hout Bay) ==Class: Compsopogonophyceae==

===Order: Erythropeltidales=== ====Family Erythrotrichiaceae==== • Erythrocladia cf. polystromatica P.J.L.Dangeard 1932, (St James, False Bay and Cape Hangklip) (Probably fairly common, but South African distribution uncertain) (Cape of Good Hope and False Bay extending eastwards at least as far as Port Elizabeth) (Cape of Good Hope at least as far as Port Alfred) (Yzerfontein to Oatlands Point, False Bay) (Worldwide – probably widely distributed in SA ) ==Class: Florideophyceae==

===Order: Acrochaetiales=== ====Family Acrochaetiaceae==== • Acrochaetium brebneri (Batters) G.Hamel 1928, syn. Rhodochorton brebneri Batters 1897, Chantransia brebneri (Batters) Rosenvinge 1909, Audouinella brebneri (Batters) P.S.Dixon 1976, (False Bay side of the Cape Peninsula) (Port Nolloth to Hout Bay) (Namibia to Eastern Cape) (Cape Peninsula) (False Bay eastward at least as far as Transkei) (Hondeklip Bay to Betty's Bay) (Between False Bay and Plettenberg Bay) (Namibia to False Bay) (Hout Bay) (Noordhoek and Olifantsbos, Cape Peninsula) (Doring Bay to Olifantsbos) (Hout Bay to Bird Island, Eastern Province) (West side of Cape Peninsula to Cape Agulhas) (Lüderitz in Namibia to Hout Bay, Southern African endemic) (Platbank, Cape Peninsula eastwards) (Known from one collection at Strandfontein, False Bay) (Olifantsbos on the Cape Peninsula eastwards) (Namibia to East London) (Swartklip to KwaZulu-Natal) (Hondeklipbaai to Cape Agulhas, endemic) (Olifantsbos in the southern Cape Peninsula eastward to KwaZulu-Natal) (Olifantsbos and Brandfontein, endemic) (Kalk Bay to Kowie River) (Cape Peninsula from Three Anchor Bay to Muizenberg, endemic) (Swartklip in False Bay to Transkei) (Swartklip in False Bay to Transkei, possibly KwaZulu-Natal) (Muizenberg to East London, endemic) (Rare on weat coast, common on south coast and KwaZulu-Natal at least as far north as Mabibi) • Flaccid kelp-weed, Carpoblepharis flaccida (J.V.Lamouroux) Kützing 1849, syn. Ptilota flaccida (J.V.Lamouroux) C.Agardh 1822, Delesseria flaccida J.V.Lamouroux 1813, (Namibia to the Kei river, Southern African endemic) (Möwe Bay in Namibia to Buffels Bay on the Cape Peninsula) (Whole southern African coast) (Cape Hangklip) (Swakopmund in Namibia to East London, Southern African endemic) • Ceramium aff. callipterum Mazoyer 1938, (West side of southern Cape Peninsula) (Cape Point eastwards along south coast) (Lüderitz to Kommetjie, endemic) (Cape Hangklip to Kei River, endemic) (False Bay eastward along entire Cape south coast) (Sea Point on Cape Peninsula eastward into KwaZulu-Natal, Southern African endemic) (From Namibia south and eastwards along the whole Cape South coast, Southern African endemic) (Primarily a West Coast species, endemic) (Swakopmund in Namibia to False Bay. Southern African endemic) (Whole of Cape west coast and east to Knysna) (Found once at Muizenberg, endemic) (Kalk Bay eastward into tropical East Africa) (False Bay eastwards to northern KwaZulu-Natal) (Clovelly in False Bay to Kowie river, endemic) (Port Nolloth to Southern Cape Peninsula), (Only known from Platboombaai, endemic) (Paternoster to Olifantsbos, Port Alfred) (Namibia to Port Alfred, Southern African endemic) (Brandfontein, Strandfontein in False Bay, and Waterloo Bay in Eastern Cape, endemic) (Lambert's Bay to East London), (Swartklip. Brandfontein, and Port Elizabeth to East London, endemic) (Lamberts Bay to KwaZulu-Natal, endemic) (Paternoster to KwaZulu-Natal, Southern African endemic) (Lamberts Bay to Brandfontein, endemic) (False Bay to Eastern Cape, endemic) (Southern Cape Peninsula to KwaZulu-Natal) (as A. venulosum, Kommetjie to KwaZulu-Natal) (Oudekraal to Brandfontein) (Muizenberg and Cape Hangklip at least as far as Mission Rocks, endemic) (Namibia to southern Cape Peninsula) (Namibia to Cape of Good Hope. Southern African endemic) (Table Bay to Kei River) (Kommetjie to Muizenberg on the Cape Peninsula) (Namibia to southern Cape Peninsula) (Common south coast species, extending into KwaZulu-Natal at least as far as Sodwana Bay) (Drift material at Muizenberg, endemic) (Swakopmund to Kommetjie) (Namibia to southern Cape Peninsula) (Both sides of the Cape Peninsula, endemic) (Port Nolloth to Brandfontein. Southern African endemic) • Platyclinia sp. (Olifantsbos) (Port Nolloth to Cape Agulhas) (Blaauwberg eastwards) (Saldanha Bay, Kommetjie on Cape Peninsula eastward along whole of south coast) (Namibia to Brandfontein) • Cape chondria, Chondria capensis (Harvey) Askenasy 1888, syn. Laurencia capensis Harvey 1849, Chondriopsis capensis (Harvey) J.Agardh 1863, (Namibia to just east of Cape Agulhas. Southern African endemic.) (St James, Muizenberg and Swartklip in False Bay. Cape south coast. Endemic) (St James, Brandfontein and coast of De Hoop nature reserve, Southern African endemic) (Between Hondeklipbaai and St James, endemic) (Muizenberg, Cape Agulhas eastward to the tropics) (False Bay to KwaZulu-Natal at least as far north as Mabibi, endemic)) (Port Nolloth?, Melbosstrand?, Cape Peninsula eastward) (False Bay to East London, endemic) (Hondeklipbaai?, Platboombaai on Cape Peninsula to Mozambique) (Swartklip, Brandfontein, more common in Eastern Cape, endemic) (Kalk Bay on the Cape Peninsula extending along south and east coast to southern Mozambique) (Melkbosstrand to Strandfontein in False Bay, possibly further east, endemic) (Namibia, the entire South African coast into Mozambique) (Olifantsbos, Cape Agulhas, Eastern Cape. Southern African endemic) (Muizenberg and Clovelly in False Bay) (Port Nolloth to Cape Agulhas. Southern African endemic) (Namibia, Cape west coast and Cape south coast) (Swartklip in False Bay, Cape south coast and KwaZulu-Natal. Southern African endemic) (Yzerfontein to Clovelly in False Bay) (Saldanha to St. James in False Bay) (Blaauwberg to Cape Hangklip, endemic) (Doring Bay, Muizenberg and Glencairn in False Bay eastward, Southern African endemic) (Rare in Western Cape. False Bay, Eastern Cape to tropical East Africa) (Camps Bay, Kowie area, extending into KwaZulu-Natal as far as Shelly Beach, endemic) (False Bay, Kowie) (Doring Bay to Cape Agulhas and further east to KwaZulu-Natal) (Namibia to KwaZulu-Natal, Southern African endemic) (Bakoven on Cape Peninsula to KwaZulu-Natal) (Hout Bay to East London, endemic) (Namibia to Cape Hangklip, Southern African endemic) (Cape Point to Arniston, endemic) (Swartklip in False Bay to Natal, Southern African endemic) (Namibia to East London, Southern African endemic) (Paternoster and Oudekraal, endemic) (Port Nolloth to southern Cape Peninsula, endemic) (Swartklip in False Bay to Mozambique) (Clovelly in False Bay to KwaZulu-Natal, Widespread in tropical regions.) (Platbank on Cape Peninsula to Mozambique) (Kraalbaai, Strandfontein, Port Elizabeth to Hluleka, endemic) (Paternoster to Kowie River, endemic) (Kommetjie eastward entire south coast and Eastern Cape) (Hondeklipbaai to Transkei) (Platbank, Cape Peninsula) (Hondeklip Bay to East London) (Hondeklip Bay and Oudekraal, endemic) (Llandudno on Cape Peninsula to Kowie River, endemic) (Southern Cape Peninsula eastward) (Probably along most of the southern African coast) (Namibia and west coast) (Oudekraal to Kowie river) (Yzerfontein, Western Cape to Sodwana Bay, KwaZulu-Natal.) • Finely forked coralline, Jania adhaerens J.V.Lamouroux, 1816 (TMNPMPA) • Jania crassa J.V.Lamouroux 1821, (St. James in False Bay, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal) (as Cheilosporum cultratum, Platboombaai on Cape Peninsula to Mozambique) (as Cheilosporum sagittatum, Melkbosstrand to northern Mabibi in KwaZulu-Natal.) (False Bay eastward) (Kommetjie (Western Cape) to KwaZulu-Natal) (as Titanoderma neoatalayense, Groenriviermond (Northern Cape) to Cape Agulhas (Western Cape)) (as Titanoderma polycephalum, False Bay to Cape Agulhas (Western Cape)) (as Titanoderma pustulatum, Occasional throughout the west coast and increasing in abundance toward KwaZulu-Natal where it is particularly abundant.) (Oudekraal, western Cape Peninsula, Western Cape.) (Widespread along the west coast.) (Oudekraal, western Cape Peninsula, Western Cape, to Cape Agulhas, Western Cape.) (Port Nolloth, Northern Cape, to Cape Agulhas, Western Cape.) (Cape St. Martin just south of St. Helena Bay, Western Cape, to Oudekraal, western Cape Peninsula, Western Cape.) (Throughout South Africa (Namibia to the Mozambican border). Most abundant along the southern west and south coasts, becoming less common toward the east.) • Gelidium applanatum Stegenga, Bolton & R.J.Anderson 1997, (Vulcan Rock off Hout Bay and Muizenberg) (Melkbosstrand to Kenton on Sea Eastern Cape. Endemic?) (Cape Peninsula to Knysna) (Sea Point and False Bay eastwards) (Glencairn, Cape Hangklip, Eastern Cape and southern KwaZulu-Natal up to Tinley Manor just north of Durban) (Cape Peninsula and False Bay to KwaZulu-Natal and Mozambique) (Möwe Bay, Nabibia to Brandfontein, drift specimens to Port Elizabeth) (Whole South African coast) (Namibia to East london, Southern African endemic) (Pearly Beach to Namibia, Southern African endemic) (Strand in False Bay and Die Walle, just west of Cape Agulhas, and south and east coasts, endemic) (virtually the entire South African coast, Southern African endemic) (Mainly south and east coast, as far west as Swartklip in False Bay) (Hondeklipbaai to KwaZulu-Natal, Southern African endemic) (Namibia to Cape of Good Hope, drift material from Muizenberg, Southern African endemic) (Muizenberg, Cape Hangklip to Kowie River, Southern African endemic) (Smitswinkel Bay and Swartklip east to the Kowie area) • Gigartina tysonii Reinbold in Tyson 1912, (Three Anchor Bay to Camps Bay, drift specimens from Platboombaai and Olifantsbos, endemic) • Iridaea convoluta (Areschoug ex J Agardh) Hewitt 1960, syn. Gigartina convoluta Areschoug ex J.Agardh 1899, (Table Bay to Cape of Good Hope, endemic) (Port Nolloth to Cape Agulhas, extending into Namibia, Southern African endemic) • Rhodoglossum alcicorne Stegenga, Bolton & R.J.Anderson 1997, (Hout Bay, endemic) (Port Nolloth to Cape Agulhas, rare at De Hoop, extending into Namibia) (Namibia to Cape Hangklip) (Namibia and Port Nolloth to Cape Agulhas) (Namibia to Cape Agulhas, Southern African endemic) (Namibia to southern Cape Peninsula and Cape Hangklip. Southern African endemic) (Namibia to southern Cape Peninsula, Drift material from Muizenberg) (Port Nolloth to Cape Agulhas) (St Helena bay to East London) (Namibia to False Bay, Southern African endemic) (Namibia to Cape Agulhas, Southern African endemic) (Kalk Bay, Sea Point and possibly Keurboomstrand in Plettenberg Bay) (False Bay to Brandfontein, possibly Melkbosstrand and Postberg) (Hondeklipbaai to False Bay, South African endemic) (Namibia to southern Cape Peninsula, drift material from Muizenberg) (Table Bay, False Bay, south and east coast, extending into Mozambique) • Gracilaria verrucosa (Hudson) Papenfuss 1950, syn. Fucus verrucosus Hudson 1762, (recorded from: St Helena Bay, Velddrif, Saldanha Bay, Langebaan Lagoon, Table Bay, False bay, Swartkops River) (Simon's Town in False Bay) (Blaauwberg to Strandfontein, endemic) (Port Nolloth to Cape Agulhas) (Whole west coast and south coast to Eastern Cape as far as the Kowie area) ====Family Halymeniaceae==== • Red rubber-weed, Pachymenia carnosa (J.Agardh) J.Agardh 1876, syn. Platymenia carnosa J.Agardh 1848. Iridaea carnosa (J.Agardh) Kützing 1849, Schizymenia carnosa (J.Agardh) J.Agardh 1851, (Whole west coast into Namibia, eastward to Brandtfontein) (Doring Bay to East London) (Whole Cape west coast, extending into Namibia, and eastward at least as far as Cape Agulhas, endemic) (Whole west coast extending into Namibia. Southernmost record from Platboombaai, endemic) • Tattered rag-weed, Phyllymenia capensis (O.De Clerck) Gargiulo, M.Morabito & Manghisi, 2013, (TMNPMPA) recorded as syn. Grateloupia capensis O.De Clerck, 2005. • Constricted polyopes, Polyopes constrictus (Turner) J.Agardh 1851, syn. Fucus constrictus Turner 1809, Sphaerococcus constrictus (Turner) C.Agardh 1822, Gelidium constrictum (Turner) Kützing 1849, (Doring Bay to Kei River mouth) (Hondeklipbaai to Cape Hangklip) (found only once at the Cape of Good Hope) syn. Leptophytum foveatum Y.M.Chamberlain & D.W.Keats, 1994. ===Order Hildenbrandiales=== ====Family Hildenbrandiaceae==== • Tar crust, Hildenbrandia lecannellieri Hariot 1887, (Entire west coast and east coast as far as Port Elizabeth) (Probably the whole of the west coast) (Oudekraal eastward at least as far as Cape Morgan) (Endemic, Three Anchor Bay to Cape Hangklip) (Cape Fria, Namibia to East London) (Endemic, Möwe Bay, Namibia to Cape Agulhas) (Endemic, Melkbosstrand to Kowie area of Eastern Cape) (Endemic, Muizenberg to east coast) (Port Nolloth to Cape Agulhas) (Hout Bay) (Hout Bay to Platbank on Cape Peninsula) (Lambert's Bay to Hluleka, Transkei) (Yzerfontein to Brandfontein) (as Peyssonnelia capensis, Hout Bay on Cape Peninsula eastwards extending into Mozambique) (Melkbosstrand to East London, endemic) (Collected at Muizenberg, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal) (Yzerfontein to KwaZulu-Natal extending into southern Mozambique) (entire coastline of the Western Cape to Namibia, rarer in the Eastern Cape, Southern African endemic) (Namibia to Still Bay, Southern African endemic) (Hondeklipbaai to Cape Agulhas, endemic) (Namibia to Eastern Cape, Southern African endemic) (Lüderitz to Port Elizabeth, Southern African endemic) (Port Nolloth to Brandfontein, Southern African endemic) (False Bay eastward to northern KwaZulu-Natal and extending into Mozambique. Rarer on west side of Cape Peninsula and also found at Kraalbaai and Paternoster) (Saldanha Bay and Kraalbaai to Brandfontein, endemic) (Known from drift specimens collected on the west side of Cape peninsula at Noordhoek Beach and Olifantsbos, endemic) (Southern half of the Cape Peninsula, endemic) (From Namibia along the whole of the South African coast extending into southern Mozambique) (Muizenberg and the southern Cape Peninsula to Namibia) (From drift at Strandfontein) ==Class Rhodophyta incertae sedis==

===Order Rhodophycophyta incertae sedis=== ====Family Rhodophycophyta incertae sedis==== • Callophycus densus (Sonder) Kraft 1984, syn. Thysanocladia densa Sonder 1871, (Olifantsbos to southern KwaZulu-Natal) ==Class: Stylonematophyceae==

===Order: Stylonematales=== ====Family Stylonemataceae==== • Stylonema alsidii (Zanardini, 1840) K.M.Drew 1956, (Saldanha Bay southward, and south coast of Western Cape, Eastern Cape to Kwa-Zulu Natal) (Hout Bay) ==Geographical position of places mentioned in species ranges==

• Algoa Bay, Eastern Cape, • Aliwal shoal, KwaZulu-Natal, • Arniston (Waenhuiskrans), Western Cape, • Betty's Bay, Western Cape, • Bhanga Neck, KwaZulu-Natal, • Bird Island, Eastern Cape, • Blaauwberg, Western Cape, • Black Rock, Northern KwaZulu-Natal, • Brandfontein, Western Cape, • Buffelsbaai (Cape Peninsula), Western Cape, • Buffelsbaai (west coast), Western Cape, • Buffelsbaai (south coast), Western Cape, • Cape Agulhas, Western Cape, • Cape Columbine, Western Cape, • Cape Frio, Namibia, • Cape of Good Hope, Western Cape, (sometimes used historically to refer to the Cape Province, or South Africa) • Cape Peninsula, Western Cape • Cape Hangklip, Western Cape, • Cape Infanta, Western Cape, • Clovelly, False Bay, Western Cape, • Dalebrook, False Bay, Western Cape, • Danger Point, Western Cape, • De Hoop, Western Cape, (just west of Cape Infanta) • De Walle, (Die Walle), (Just west of Agulhas) • Die Dam (Quoin Point), Western Cape, • Doring Bay (Doringbaai), Western Cape, • Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, • Dwesa, Eastern Cape, • East London, Eastern Cape, • False Bay, Western Cape, • Glencairn, False Bay, Western Cape, • Groenrivier (Groen River), • Groot Bergrivier estuary (Berg River, Velddrif), Western Cape, • Haga Haga, Eastern Cape (N of E.London) • The Haven, Eastern Cape, 150 km west of Port St. Johns, • Hermanus, Western Cape, • Hluleka, Eastern Cape, • Hondeklipbaai, Northern Cape, • Hout Bay, Cape Peninsula, Western Cape, • Isipingo, KwaZulu-Natal, • Island Rock, KwaZulu-Natal, • Kalk Bay, False Bay, Western Cape, • Kei River, Eastern Cape, • Kenton-on-Sea, Eastern Cape, • Keurboomstrand, Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape, • Knysna, Western Cape, • Kommetjie, Western Cape, • Koppie Alleen, De Hoop, Western Cape, • Kosi Bay, Kwa-Zulu-Natal, • Kowie River, Eastern Cape, • Kraalbaai, Langebaan lagoon, Western Cape, • Lala Nek, KwaZulu-Natal, • Lamberts Bay, Western Cape, • Leadsman shoal, KwaZulu-Natal, • Langebaan Lagoon, Western Cape, • Llandudno, Cape Peninsula, Western Cape, • Lüderitz, Namibia, • Mabibi, Kwa-Zulu-Natal, • Mapelane, Maphelana, KwaZulu-Natal, near St. Lucia, • Melkbosstrand, Western Cape, • Mission Rocks, KwaZulu-Natal, • Mkambati, KwaZulu-Natal, • Morgan's Bay, Eastern Cape, (Near Kei mouth) • Möwe Bay, Namibia, (Möwe Point lighthouse) • Mtwalume river, KwaZulu-Natal, • Noordhoek, Cape Peninsula, Western Cape, • Muizenberg, False Bay, Western Cape, • Oatlands Point, False Bay, Western Cape, • Oudekraal, Cape Peninsula, Western Cape, • Olifantsbos, Cape Peninsula, Western Cape, • Palm Beach, South Africa, • Park Rynie, KwaZulu-Natal, • Paternoster, Western Cape, • Papenkuilsfontein, Western Cape, 10 km west of Agulhas • Pearly Beach, Western Cape, • Platbank, Cape Peninsula, Western Cape, °'"S °'E • Platboombaai, • Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape, • Ponta do Ouro, Mozambique border, • Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, • Port Edward, KwaZulu-Natal • Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, • Port Nolloth, Northern Cape, • Port St. Johns, KwaZulu-Natal, • Postberg, Western Cape, • Protea Banks, KwaZulu-Natal, • Rabbit Rock, KwaZulu-Natal, • Robberg, Western Cape, • Rocky Point, Namibia, • Saldanha Bay, Western Cape, • Saxon Reef, KwaZulu-Natal, (near Mozambique border), • Scarborough, Cape Peninsula, Western Cape, • Scottburgh, KwaZulu-Natal, • Sea Point, Cape Peninsula, Western Cape, • Shelly Beach, KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu-Natal, • Simon's Town, Western Cape, • Smitswinkel Bay, False Bay, Western Cape, • Sodwana Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, • Soetwater, • Stilbaai (Still Bay), Western Cape, E • St Helena Bay, Western Cape, • St. James, False Bay, Western Cape, • St Lucia, KwaZulu-Natal, • Strand, Western Cape, • Strandfontein, False Bay, Western Cape, • Strandfontein, Western Cape, • Swakopmund, Namibia, • Swartklip, False Bay, Western Cape, • Swartkops River, • Table Bay, Western Cape, • Three Anchor Bay, Cape Peninsula, Western Cape, • Three Sisters (Eastern Cape), Riet River, 10 km west of Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, • Trafalgar, KwaZulu-Natal, • Tsitsikamma, Eastern Cape, • Umhlali, KwaZulu-Natal, (mHlali river mouth) • Umpangazi, KwaZulu-Natal, (Cape Vidal?) • Uvongo, KwaZulu-Natal, • Waterloo Bay, Eastern Cape, • Yzerfontein, Western Cape, ==See also==