Phylum: Phaeophyta

Class: Phaeophyceae

Order: Chordariales

Family: Chordariaceae

Analipus japonicus (Harvey) Wynne

Description: This plant has one or more erect axes arising from a common conspicuous, lobed, encrusting holdfast. The erect portion has a percurrent cylindrical axis, up to 30 cm. high, clothed on all sides with short cylindrical to flattened branchlets up to 3 cm. long; light tan to dark brown in colour.

Habitat: On rocks in the middle and lower intertidal zones.

Pacific Coast Distribution: Bering Sea to California

Robert Scagel, 1972

Analipus japonicus in author’s hand	A. japonicus in tide pool