- Reference
- Taxon 7:104 (1958)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus forming firm prostrate or upright clumps of variable morphology, light green, to 20 cm in lateral extent and up to 5 cm in height. Structure filamentous, symbiotic with the sponge Halichondria, the two forming prostrate mats with irregular protuberances, or becoming erect. Cells elongate, often without transverse walls, irregularly branched, forming numerous attachments with other cells via tenacular cells or rhizoids.
Distribution. Occurs in warmer waters of the Indo-West Pacific (including eastern Australia and Lord Howe Island).
Habitat. Epilithic in the lower intertidal and shallow subtidal.
[After Huisman & Leliaert, Algae of Australia: Mar. Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 1. Green and Brown Algae 45 (2015)]
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Carnarvon, Dampierland.
- IBRA Subregions
- Cape Range, Pindanland.
- IMCRA Regions
- Kimberley, Ningaloo, Pilbara (offshore).
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Broome, Exmouth, Karratha, Wyndham-East Kimberley.