- Reference
- Univ.Calif.Publ.Bot. 25:308 (1952)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus to 13 cm tall, erect, dark brown, with several percurrent axes bearing irregular indeterminate branches; determinate branches short and richly divided, their outer branches fusing with those of adjacent branches and forming a loose outer layer, the entire branch system (indeterminate and determinate) 3–8 mm diam. Structure uniaxial, with 4 pericentral cells, ecorticate, with numerous trichoblasts near the apices.
Reproduction. Reproductive structures not observed.
Distribution. Widespread in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, and in Western Australia south to Rottnest Island.
Habitat. epilithic in the intertidal and shallow subtidal.
[After J.M. Huisman in Algae of Australia: Marine Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 2. Red Algae: 576–578 (2018)]
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Carnarvon, Dampierland, Indian Tropical Islands, Pilbara.
- IBRA Subregions
- Cape Range, Pindanland, Roebourne.
- IMCRA Regions
- Canning, Central West Coast, Kimberley, Leeuwin-Naturaliste, Ningaloo, Pilbara (nearshore), Pilbara (offshore), Shark Bay.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Ashburton, Broome, Carnarvon, Cockburn, Irwin, Karratha, Shark Bay, Wyndham-East Kimberley.