- Reference
- Rep.Ceylon Mar.Biol.Lab. 2:127, Figs 23-24 (1906)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus grass-green to dark green, spreading laterally to 20 cm, with smooth stolons 3–4 mm diam., attached by pillars to 5 cm long bearing numerous rhizoids. Assimilators fleshy, to 9 cm tall and 1.5–2.0 cm wide. Rachis slightly to markedly flattened, 3–4 mm wide, unbranched, basally with a smooth stalk 2–5 mm long and 2.0–2.5 mm wide, then bearing distichous ramuli arising alternately or suboppositely from the margins at intervals of 2–3 mm. Ramuli clavate to once-dichotomous, 7–9 mm long and 2–4 mm wide.
Distribution. Known only from One Arm Point, W.A., and the type collection from Sri Lanka.
[After Belton, Huisman & Gurgel, Algae of Australia: Mar. Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 1. Green and Brown Algae 89 (2015)]
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Dampierland.
- IBRA Subregions
- Pindanland.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Broome.