- Reference
- J.Oceanogr.Works China 17:4-5, 9, Pl. I: Fig. 2; Fig. 5(1-3) (1980)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus erect, to 11 cm tall, green, drying a pale mottled green, growing from a small holdfast, dichotomously to trichotomously branched. Basal segment subcylindrical, others discoid or reniform. Segments 7–15 mm long, 10–25 mm wide, typically with undulate margins, the distal edge thickened and often furrowed. Medullary filaments 60–110 µm diam. Utricles in 2 or 3 layers; peripheral utricles 60–110 µm diam., polygonal in surface view, firmly attached, often fusing laterally. Nodal medullary filaments fusing completely in 2s or 3s.
Distribution. Widespread in the Indo-Pacific Ocean.
Habitat. Epilithic in the intertidal.
[After Huisman & Verbruggen, Algae of Australia: Mar. Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 1. Green and Brown Algae 137 (2015)]
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Dampierland.
- IBRA Subregions
- Pindanland.
- IMCRA Regions
- Bonaparte Gulf, Kimberley.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Broome, Derby-West Kimberley, Wyndham-East Kimberley.