| Division | Rhodophyta |
| Class | Florideophyceae |
| Order | Ceramiales |
| Family | Rhodomelaceae |
| Basionym | Amansia prolifera J.Agardh |
Thallus erect, 5-10 cm in height, ribbon like and sparingly branched along the margin; branches short or sometimes intermediate, apices incurved; axis with five pericentral cells, the lateral ones developing wing- like extensions; from very early, the segments covered with small celled dense cortical tissue; proliferation frequent from both intermediate and determinate branches, marginal or from the flat surface; ultimate branchlets recurved, hook like, bearing short, sparingly forked trichoblasts with short, thick walled cells.
Ecology
Lithophytic in the intertidal and on coral debris on sand.
Distribution in India
Cape Comorian; Tuticorin (Boergesen, 1937); Tiruchendur (Krishnamurthy, 1980); Lakshadweep (Subbaramaiah et al., 1980).