“…The background to the 2005 survey and a brief description of the island of St Helena is given in Wigginton (2006), and details of the physical environment, history, habitats and biota of St Helena are discussed at length in Ashmole (2000). ( Figure 1) Vegetative stems unbranched, pinnate, 18-206 2.0-3.2 mm; with central strand, 3-6 tiers of inner and 2-3 tiers of outer cortical cells, with basal, brown, smooth rhizoids; axillary nodules not differentiated.…”