- Reference
- Novosti Sist.Nizsh.Rast. 24:28 (1987)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus encrusting, epiphytic. Medullary cells 4.5–7.0 μm long, 5–8 μm diam. Cortical filaments multicellular, consisting of up to 15 cells; cells 4.8–7.5 μm long, 3.5–5.0 μm diam., terminated by an elongate initial (7.2–12.0 μm long, 2.5–3.5 μm diam.) and a single epithallial cell 2–3 μm long, 6.5–8.0 μm diam.
Reproduction. Sporangial conceptacles raised, crowded, white when mature, 276–460 μm outside diam., 230–370 μm internal diam.; roof ±flat or slightly convex, 4 or 5 cells thick, perforated by 4–15 pores. Sporangia as beaked bispores, 85–106 μm long, 19–50 μm diam. Gametangial material not seen.
Distribution. Occurs in the cool-temperate north-western Pacific Ocean and north-western Australia.
[After R.A. Townsend & J.M. Huisman in Algae of Australia: Marine Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 2. Red Algae: 135 (2018)]
Distribution
- IMCRA Regions
- Kimberley.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Wyndham-East Kimberley.