- Reference
- Algae 22:54 (2007)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus erect to decumbent, dark red to purple, with clusters of cartilaginous compressed axes to 3 cm tall, mostly irregularly branched in one plane. Axes to 2–3 mm wide, smooth to warty due to short lateral branches. Medullary cells 50–90 µm diam., grading to pigmented cortical cells. Outer cortical layer forming a palisade, to 50 µm thick, with epidermal cells radially elongate and with sharply protruding mostly apiculate outer walls. Secondary pit connections visible when viewed in longitudinal sections. Lenticular thickenings not seen.
Reproduction. Not observed.
Distribution. Known from the Indian Ocean and the central and western Pacific Ocean. In north-western Australia, recorded only from Cape Talbot, also in Queensland.
[After Y. Metti, J.M. Huisman & A.J.K. Millar in Algae of Australia: Marine Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 2. Red Algae: 553–554 (2018)]
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Northern Kimberley.
- IBRA Subregions
- Mitchell.
- IMCRA Regions
- Kimberley.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Wyndham-East Kimberley.