- Reference
- Kongel.Danske Vidensk.Selsk.Naturvidensk.Math.Afh. 72-73, figs 11-12 (1909)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus minute (usually 20–100 µm in diameter), forming irregular discs of radiating branched filaments, usually not closely adherent laterally and free at the margins, branching from subapical cells, becoming polystromatic centrally; cells 1.5–6(–10) µm in diameter, 2–15(–20) µm long, rhodoplasts single, parietal, with a pyrenoid.
Reproduction. By monospores liberated from sporangia cut off from central cells in the polystromatic region, 3–5 µm in diameter.
Distribution. Cosmopolitan.
Habitat. A common epiphyte.
[After Womersley, Mar. Benthic Fl. Southern Australia IIIA: 26–27 (1994)]