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Pseudocodium australasicum Womersley

Reference
Pacific Sci. 390, figs 5,6 (1955)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Scientific Description

Habit and structure. Thallus dark green, erect, subdichotomous to irregularly branched partly in one plane, to 6 cm high, branches 1–2 mm broad, compressed, holdfast small. Medulla of longitudinal, branched filaments 13–28 µm in diameter, forming a surface cortical layer (12–27 µm wide) of short clavate branches 4–7 µm in diameter adhering together as seen in surface view. Chloroplasts ovoid, 2–3 µm long; amyloplasts sparse.

Reproduction. Unknown.

Distribution. From Hopetoun, W. Aust., to Point Sinclair, S. Aust.

[After Womersley, Mar. Benthic Fl. Southern Australia I: 246 (1984)]