- Reference
- Trans.Roy.Irish Acad. 549 (1855)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus medium red, tufted, 3–5 cm high, subdichotomously and complanately branched with branches of even width, 3–6 mm broad, 2–5 mm apart, with strongly crispate to convolute margins, axils rounded; veins absent. Holdfast probably discoid; epiphytic. Structure. Growth marginal without apical cells; mature cells angular in surface view, isodiametric to slightly elongate, 35–55 µm across, often in transverse rows. Blades mostly tristromatic, polystromatic basally, cortical cells equivalent. Cells multinucleate; rhodoplasts discoid.
Reproduction. Gametophytes unknown. Tetrasporangial sori scattered, rounded, 0.5–1.5 mm across, with tetrasporangia subspherical to ovoid, 50–90 µm across.
Distribution.King George Sound and Rottnest I., W. Aust.
[After Womersley, Mar. Benthic Fl. Southern Australia IIID: 124–125 (2003)]
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Perth.
- IMCRA Regions
- Leeuwin-Naturaliste.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Rockingham.