- Reference
- Trans.Linn.Soc.London,Bot. 7:178-179, Pl. 23-24, Figs 20-22 (1908)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus forming clusters of erect stipitate fronds from an emergent holdfast, olive to green, to 7 cm tall. Stipes to 13 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, mostly unbranched, each bearing a thin spongy mostly cuneate and non-zonate blade 25–30 mm tall and up to 25 mm wide, composed of tightly woven siphons. Internal siphons cylindrical, 17–25 μm diam., sparingly dichotomously branched with shallow elongate constrictions at the dichotomies, tapering to 12–15 μm diam. towards the surface and becoming torulose, forming a pseudocortex; apices rounded. Siphons with numerous subspherical to lenticular plastids 3–5 μm diam., each with a prominent pyrenoid.
Distribution. Tropical Indo-Pacific.
Habitat. Epilithic in the intertidal and shallow subtidal.
[After Huisman, Algae of Australia: Mar. Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 1. Green and Brown Algae 118-120 (2015)]
Distribution
- IMCRA Regions
- North West Shelf.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Broome, Derby-West Kimberley.