- Reference
- Pacific Sci. 22:204-205, Fig. 2D (1968)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus with well-developed prostrate axes 120–150 µm diam. [segment L:B 0.6–0.7], attached by unicellular rhizoids pit-connected to the bearing cell. Upright axes to 7 mm tall, sparsely branched (origin of lateral branches not observed), 100–150 µm diam. [segment L:B 0.1–1.5] at mid-thallus, markedly less near apices [segment L:B c. 0.3]. All axes with 5 pericentral cells. Trichoblasts/scar cells rarely present.
Reproduction. Reproductive structures not observed.
Distribution. Known from warmer waters of the eastern Indian and central and western Pacific Oceans. In Australia known only from the Dampier Archipelago.
Habitat. epilithic in the subtidal.
[After J.M. Huisman in Algae of Australia: Marine Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 2. Red Algae: 569 (2018)]