- Reference
- Botany (Ottawa) 94:926 (2016)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus light red. Prostrate axes 50–90 µm diam., attached by elongate rhizoids arising from pericentral cells; rhizoids terminating in a digitate multicellular pad. Scar cells present on most segments of prostrate axes, but absent on erect axes. Erect axes to 3.5 mm tall, with alternate distichous branching, the determinate lateral branches arising from every second segment. Lateral branches 350–500 µm long, 40–55 µm diam., mostly of uniform diameter but tapering near the apex to a blunt point, with 6 pericentral cells, fusing laterally only slightly with the bearing branch. Trichoblasts absent.
Reproduction. Not observed.
Distribution. Known from the British Isles, south-western France, Portugal, southern Spain, California and Japan. Also reported from the Montebello Islands, north-western Australia.
[After J.M. Huisman in Algae of Australia: Marine Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 2. Red Algae: 582–583 (2018)]
Distribution
- IMCRA Regions
- Pilbara (offshore).
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Karratha.