- Reference
- Liste Alg.Siboga 1:95-96, Fig. 23 (1913)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus dark green, to 2 mm tall, tufted, arising from an irregularly lobed rhizoidal base, bearing erect simple to once-branched siphons to 50 µm diam. near the base, tapering to c. 20 µm diam. near the apices; siphons occasionally septate. Chloroplasts numerous, subspherical, 3–5 µm diam., each with a pyrenoid. Sporangia obovoid or pyriform, 100–120 µm long (including pedicel), 60–75 µm diam., with a short pedicel and double septa at the base.
Distribution. Reported from Indonesia, Japan, tentatively from Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands) and in Australia from Qld and northern W.A.
Habitat. Epizoic in the intertidal.
[After Huisman, Algae of Australia: Mar. Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 1. Green and Brown Algae 115-116 (2015)]
Distribution
- IMCRA Regions
- Canning.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Broome.