- Reference
- Ann.Jard.Bot.Buitenzorg 15:335, Pl. XXVII: Figs 8-13, Pl. XXVIII: Figs 10-12, 14 (1898)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus dark green, with smooth green to straw-coloured stolons 1–3 mm diam., attached to sandy substrata by pillars and dense rhizoidal filaments. Rachis simple or 3–4 times irregularly branched, to 7 cm tall; basal parts 2–3 mm diam., naked or with a few short ramuli; upper parts becoming more slender and bearing elongate ramuli in 2–4 ranks. Ramuli terete, 1.5–3.0 mm long [L:B 3–5 (–7)], not basally constricted, tapering gradually to an apical spine.
Distribution. Widespread in tropical to subtropical seas. In W.A. south to Ningaloo Reef.
Habitat. Grows on sand in the intertidal and shallow subtidal.
[After Belton, Huisman & Gurgel, Algae of Australia: Mar. Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 1. Green and Brown Algae 86 (2015)]
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Carnarvon.
- IBRA Subregions
- Cape Range.
- IMCRA Regions
- Canning, Central West Coast, Ningaloo, Pilbara (nearshore), Pilbara (offshore).
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Ashburton, Broome, Exmouth, Irwin, Karratha.