Pyrophyllon subtumens

{{Short description|Species of alga}}

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| image = Pyrophyllon-cross-section.jpg

| image_caption = Cross-section of a Durvillaea antarctica frond, showing Pyrophyllon subtumens growing on the outer surface

| genus = Pyrophyllon

| species = subtumens

| authority = (J. Agardh ex R.M. Laing) W.A. Nelson 2003

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Pyrophyllon subtumens is an obligate red algal epiphyte of Durvillaea southern bull-kelp, and is endemic to New Zealand.{{cite journal |doi=10.1111/j.1440-1835.1996.tb00034.x |title=Life history in culture of the obligate epiphyte Porphyra subtumens (Bangiales, Rhodophyta) endemic to New Zealand |year=1996 |last1=Nelson|first1=W.A. |last2=Knight |first2=G.A. |journal=Phycological Research |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=19–25|s2cid=85007306 }}{{cite journal |doi=10.2216/i0031-8884-42-3-308.1 |title=Pyrophyllon and Chlidophyllon (Erythropeltidales, Rhodophyta): two new genera for obligate epiphytic species previously placed in Porphyra, and a discussion of the orders Erythropeltidales and Bangiales |year=2003 |last1=Nelson|first1=W.A. |last2=Broom |first2=J.E. |last3=Farr |first3=T.J. |journal=Phycologia |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=308–315|s2cid=83609962 }}