- Reference
- Syll.Alg. 1226 (1903)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus densely tufted, 2–4 cm high, with entangled, branched, prostrate filaments producing erect filaments which are sparingly and irregularly to subdichotomously branched. Prostrate filaments attached by digitate haptera; epilithic. Structure. Prostrate filaments 50–100 µm in diameter, cells L/D 6–7. Cells multinucleate; rhodoplasts discoid.
Reproduction. Gametophytes unknown. Tetrasporangia terminal on short pedicels borne laterally on upper cells of erect axes, with further pedicels producing clusters, 50–70 µm in diameter, tetrahedrally (or with 8) divided.
Distribution.Rottnest I., to King George Sound, W. Aust., and Vivonne Bay, Kangaroo I., S. Aust. Lord How I.
[After Womersley, Mar. Benthic Fl. Southern Australia IIIC: 225 (1998)]
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
- IBRA Subregions
- Perth, Warren.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Cockburn, Manjimup.