- Reference
- Algern.Syst. 96-97 (1887)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus emerald-green, but often overgrown by crustose algae, mostly glossy and iridescent, composed of a single large primary vesiculate cell, 1–4 (–8) cm diam., attached to the substratum by markedly smaller rhizoidal cells, occasionally in clusters. Primary cell spherical, pyriform or lobed. Cells multinucleate, with numerous discoid chloroplasts each with a single pyrenoid; proliferation by modified segregative division only.
Distribution. Widely distributed in tropical and subtropical seas.
Habitat. Epilithic in the intertidal and shallow subtidal.
[After Huisman & Leliaert, Algae of Australia: Mar. Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 1. Green and Brown Algae 67 (2015)]
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Carnarvon, Pilbara.
- IBRA Subregions
- Cape Range, Roebourne.
- IMCRA Regions
- Kimberley, Ningaloo, North West Shelf, Pilbara (nearshore), Pilbara (offshore).
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Ashburton, Broome, Carnarvon, Exmouth, Karratha, Wyndham-East Kimberley.