- Reference
- Univ.Calif.Publ.Bot. 13:107 (1925)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus medium to dark olive green, to 3.5 cm tall, with several loosely organized complanate blades with ragged margins. Blades reticulate, formed by much-branched, anastomosing filaments, these 190–250 µm in diameter, 485–630 µm long and bearing up to 5 branches per node. Adhesion of filaments to target filaments by digitate processes. Cells with a reticulum of plastids, with numerous spherical pyrenoids 2–3 µm in diameter.
Distribution. Widespread in tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific.
Habitat. Epilithic.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Swan Coastal Plain.
- IBRA Subregions
- Perth.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Cockburn.