- Reference
- Tab.Phycol. 10:24, Pl. 66, Fig. 2e-f (1860)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus to 14 cm tall; erect axes densely branched from a creeping holdfast. Erect axes subterete, smooth, 1.00–1.25 mm diam. Primary branches radial, giving rise to leafy obconical laterals that are rounded to slightly triangular from above, with smooth to dentate margins, 8.75–9.50 mm diam. Receptacles digitate, simple or forked, in dense racemose clusters, verrucose, terete, with rounded apices, 2.0–3.5 mm long, 0.50–0.75 mm diam.
Distribution. Widespread in the tropical Indo-Pacific. In Australia known from northern W.A. and Qld.
Habitat. Attached to subtidal reefs and rocks.
[After Dixon & Huisman, Algae of Australia: Mar. Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 1. Green and Brown Algae 273 (2015)]
Distribution
- IMCRA Regions
- Kimberley.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Derby-West Kimberley, Wyndham-East Kimberley.