- Reference
- Bot.Tidsskr. 53:72 (1956)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus red to red-purple, 1–5 mm high, frequently branched alternately to subdichotomously with the new lateral displacing the axis above it, attached by an unspecialised basal cell; epiphytic. Filaments 15–20 µm in diameter, with a uniseriate row of closely adjacent cells 8–12 µm in diameter within the thick mucilaginous sheath; cells isodiametric (L/B 0.5–2) with rounded to angular corners, rhodoplasts stellate, with a central pyrenoid.
Reproduction. By release of vegetative cells as monospores, by dissolution of the sheath matrix.
Distribution. Virtually cosmopolitan.
Habitat. A common epiphyte on a variety of hosts.
[After Womersley, Mar. Benthic Fl. Southern Australia IIIA: 24 (1994)]
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Carnarvon, Warren.
- IBRA Subregions
- Warren, Wooramel.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Carnarvon, Manjimup.