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Chaetomorpha indica (Kütz.) Kütz.

Reference
Sp.Alg. 376 (1849)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Scientific Description

Habit and structure. Thallus light to medium green, loose-lying as masses of long strands (to 15 cm long) or entangled with other algae, in the uppermost sublittoral. Filaments unbranched, apparently without attachment cells, of similar diameter throughout. Cells (100–)105–130(–150) µm in diameter and L/B (1–)1.5–2.5, often collapsing on drying; wall 3–7 µm thick; chloroplasts openly to fairly densely reticulate, with numerous pyrenoids; nuclei numerous.

Reproduction. Unknown.

Distribution. Qld. In southern Australia, known from Walpole Inlet, W. Aust., Coffin Bay and Robe, S. Aust., and Swan Bay, Port Phillip, Vic. Probably more widely distributed in sheltered waters.

[After Womersley, Mar. Benthic Fl. Southern Australia I: 180 (1984)]

John Huisman & Cheryl Parker, 3 August 2021

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Warren.
IMCRA Regions
Kimberley.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Manjimup, Wyndham-East Kimberley.