- Reference
- Voy.Pôle Sud Pl.Cell. 1:21-22 (1845)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus grass-green to dark green, often with straw-coloured tips, with smooth stolons 1.5–2.5 mm diam., attached by pillars 1–2 cm long with clustered rhizoids. Assimilators to 5–7 cm tall, with a smooth terete stalk 1.5–3.0 cm long and 2–3 mm diam., distally richly dichotomously to irregularly branched. Rachis to 1 mm wide, bearing short perpendicular ramuli in 2 or 3 ranks, these essentially wart-like protuberances with pointed tips.
Distribution. Occurs in tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific Ocean; in W.A. known from the Dampier Archipelago.
[After Belton, Huisman & Gurgel, Algae of Australia: Mar. Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 1. Green and Brown Algae 99 (2015)]