- Reference
- Dansk Bot.Ark. 3:23 (1915)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus to 160 µm tall exclusive of hairs, arising from a prostrate base. Erect axes slightly arcuate, secundly branched; cells 9–16 µm long and 4–7 µm diam. Most filaments terminating in an elongate hair 80–90 µm long borne centrally or slightly laterally. Intercalary cells also often with lateral hairs. Each cell with a stellate plastid and a central pyrenoid 3–4 µm diam.
Reproduction. Monosporangia secund, sessile or pedicellate, ellipsoidal, c. 16 × 7–9 µm.
Distribution. This species is seemingly widespread, but most records are from predominantly temperate or cooler regions.
Habitat. Epizoic in the shallow subtidal in Western Australia.
[After J.M. Huisman & W.J. Woelkerling in Algae of Australia: Marine Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 2. Red Algae: 20 (2018)]