- Reference
- Cryptog.Algol. 18:215 (1997)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus light pink, small, delicate, irregularly or dichotomously branched. Branches to 2.5 mm wide, with marginal rhizoids, lacking midribs and veins. Structure monostromatic; cells in surface view irregularly heptagonal, hexagonal or elongate, with longest dimension to 100 µm.
Reproduction. Spermatangia and tetrasporangia in circular to irregularly shaped sori to 500 µm wide, generally restricted to terminal lobes. Tetrasporangia in 2 layers, with an indusium of small cells, tetrahedrally divided, 40–50 µm diam. Cystocarps with a dome-shaped pericarp.
Distribution. Widespread in warmer regions of the Indian and Pacific Oceans and the Caribbean Sea. In Australia known only from the Dampier Archipelago and the Montebello Islands.
Habitat. Epiphytic in the shallow subtidal.
[After J.M. Huisman & S.-M. Lin in Algae of Australia: Marine Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 2. Red Algae: 471 (2018)]
Distribution
- IMCRA Regions
- Pilbara (nearshore).
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Karratha.