- Reference
- Siboga-Exped.Monogr. 62:33, 137, Pl. X, Fig. 92; Pl. XI, Fig. 93 (1911)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus dark green to brown-green, usually 10–25 cm high, with a matted holdfast giving rise to 1 to 8 fronds each with a long stipe expanding above to a cuneate lamina; stipes (4–)8–15 cm long and 0.5–1 cm in diameter; laminausually 4–8 cm long and 4–8 cm broad, often zoned, (0.2–)0.5–1(–2) mm thick. Filaments of lamina 35–55 µm in diameter, relatively straight to slightly undulate, often torulose near their subclavate apices, constricted at dichotomies; chloroplasts and amyloplasts ovoid; a yellowish inclusion often present in upper filaments.
Reproduction. Unknown.
Distribution. From Rottnest I., W. Aust., to Port Phillip, Vic.
Habitat. A. clavatiramea is essentially a deep water species, usually growing in a sandy substratum.
[After Womersley, Mar. Benthic Fl. Southern Australia I: 253 (1984)]
Distribution
- IMCRA Regions
- Leeuwin-Naturaliste.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Cockburn.