- Reference
- Algae of Australia: Marine Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 2. Red Algae 567-568, Fig. 169A-F (2018)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus with well-developed prostrate axes, attached by unicellular rhizoids in open connection with the bearing cell. Prostrate axes 30–40 µm diam. [segment L:B c. 1]. Upright axes to 6 mm tall, simple to sparsely branched, 30–40 µm diam., tapering gradually to 25 µm diam. below slightly curved apices, with segment L:B 0.8–1.5, shorter towards apices [L:B 0.3–0.5]. Trichoblasts absent or rudimentary to well developed at apices, secundly branched, soon deciduous. All axes with 4 pericentral cells. Scar cells occasionally present.
Reproduction. Spermatangia formed in cylindrical to lanceolate heads on lateral branches of trichoblasts, with up to 6 fertile branches per trichoblast, 70–85 µm long, 20–25 µm diam. Other reproductive structures not observed.
Distribution. Dampier Archipelago and the Montebello Islands, north-western Australia.
[After J.M. Huisman in Algae of Australia: Marine Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 2. Red Algae: 567 (2018)]
Distribution
- IMCRA Regions
- Kimberley.