- Reference
- Phycol.General. 437 (1843)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus erect, to 17 cm tall, red to purple (often drying black), arising from a small discoid holdfast or with short stolons. Primary axes 0.5–1.5 mm diam., with subopposite to alternate basally slightly tapering or unconstricted lateral indeterminate branches, these giving the thallus a pyramidal outline. All branches with sparse to numerous short spines. Branch primordia rounded, not associated with a spine, the spines arising at apices as the branch matures.
Reproduction. Reproductive structures not observed.
Distribution. Warmer waters of the Indian Ocean and western Atlantic.
Habitat. Epilithic in the shallow subtidal.
[After J.M. Huisman in Algae of Australia: Marine Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 2. Red Algae: 480–482 (2018)]
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Dampierland.
- IBRA Subregions
- Pindanland.
- IMCRA Regions
- Canning, Kimberley, Shark Bay.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Broome, Derby-West Kimberley, Shark Bay, Wyndham-East Kimberley.