- Reference
- Nat.Hist.Juan Fernandez (Botany) 2(5):645 (1943)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus 18–20 mm in height, deep red-purple, with clusters of irregularly branched stipes bearing 1–3 subspherical to pyriform terminal vesicles. Vesicles subspherical to obovoid, 7–10 mm long by 5 mm in diameter, hollow, with a wall of 3–4 cell layers and 100–150 µm thick, the inner layer of large, hyaline medullary cells, grading outwardly to smaller pigmented cortical cells. Outer cortical cells forming a continuous layer, not in rosettes. Gland cells arising in groups of 2–7 (occasionally more) on inner surface of medullary cells, pyriform, to 35 µm in diameter.
Reproduction. Reproductive structures not seen.
Distribution. Probably widely distributed in warmer waters.
Habitat. Epilithic in the intertidal to 12 m depths.
Distribution
- IMCRA Regions
- Ningaloo, North West Shelf, Pilbara (offshore).
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Carnarvon, Karratha, Wyndham-East Kimberley.