- Reference
- Bot.Mag.(Tokyo) 39:85, Fig. 3 (1925)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus dark green, upright, 4.5 cm tall and 9 cm wide, coarse and wiry. Branching from each primary axial cell, alternate or secund, subsequently with 2–4 adventitious laterals from mature nodes. Attachment by a stout basal cell, with additional descending rhizoids arising from proximal ends of lower cells and forming a matted stipe. Cells cylindrical to clavate [L:B 5–10], 120–250 µm diam. near apices, to 350 µm diam. near the base.
Distribution. Widespread in the Indo-Pacific.
Habitat. Epilithic in the intertidal.
[After Huisman & Leliaert, Algae of Australia: Mar. Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 1. Green and Brown Algae 53 (2015)]
Distribution
- IMCRA Regions
- Canning.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Broome.