- Reference
- Trans.Roy.Irish Acad. 565 (1855)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus medium green, with a short, terete stipe (to 12 mm long) expanding to a flat, felt-like frond 1.5–2 mm thick, to 80 cm broad and 40 cm long, simple or once furcate, irregularly lobed. Utricles 65–200(–290) µm in diameter below apex, 470–800 µm long; apices rounded, thickened to 30 µm and lamellate; hairs (or scars) common. Medullary filaments 20–55 µm in diameter, much slenderer than utricle base, with prominent plugs adjacent to utricle base.
Reproduction. Gametangia elongate-ovoid to cylindrical, 40–90 µm in diameter, 170–250 µm long, 1–4 per utricle, borne on a slight protuberance from utricle.
Distribution. From Port Denison, W. Aust., to Pearson I., S. Aust.
Habitat. Usually a deep water species, collected from shallow areas (often in shade) to 30 m deep.
[After Womersley, Mar. Benthic Fl. Southern Australia I: 232–234 (1984)]
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest.
- IMCRA Regions
- Central West Coast, Leeuwin-Naturaliste.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Augusta Margaret River, Busselton, Cockburn, Coorow, Cottesloe, Dandaragan, Irwin, Joondalup, Perth, Rockingham.