Scinaia fascicularis (Børgesen) Huisman 1985

    Thalli dark pinkish red in colour, up to 17 cm height, cartilaginous with small discodal holdfast. Thallus dichotomously branched, slender, cylindrical, unconstricted. Thalli 210-240 μm wide, cortex measures 65-85 μm thick, the outer cortex 55 μm thick, with anticlinal moniliform rows of cells enclosing pyriform or ellipsoidal utricles measure 30-38 μm long and 14-19 μm broad; broadly rounded at the upper ends, in surface view appearing as hyaline areas surrounded by numerous coloured cells. Inner cortex not well developed, composed of loosely woven thin corticating filaments.