- Reference
- Kongel.Danske Vidensk.Selsk.Skr., Naturvidensk.Math.Afd. 4:376 (1907)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus dark olive-green, spreading laterally to 25 cm, with smooth green to straw-coloured stolons 1–2 mm diam., attached to the substratum by pillars bearing dense rhizoids. Rachis simple or 1–4 times branched, terete but often compressed or flattened, to 8 cm tall, 1.0–1.5 mm diam., bearing mostly distichous, opposite or alternate ramuli, regularly spaced. Ramuli terete, 4–5 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, with spinous apices. Basal portions of assimilators (and occasionally elsewhere) with ramuli in several ranks.
Distribution. Known from the Caribbean Sea, Indonesia, New Guinea, Queensland, Lord Howe Island, northern W.A.
Habitat. In northern W.A. it grows in sand in the shallow subtidal.
[After Belton, Huisman & Gurgel, Algae of Australia: Mar. Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 1. Green and Brown Algae 85 (2015)]
Distribution
- IMCRA Regions
- Kimberley, Pilbara (nearshore), Pilbara (offshore).
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Karratha, Wyndham-East Kimberley.