- Reference
- Algae of Australia: Marine Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 2. Red Algae 539 (2018)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Scientific Description
Habit and structure. Thallus with prominent prostrate axes attached by pit-connected rhizoids arising from lower pericentral cells, and simple or sparsely branched upright axes to 3 mm tall. Upright axes 25–60 μm diam. Pericentral cells 4, with trichoblasts/scar cells on every segment, in a spiral pattern with a 1/4 divergence.
Reproduction. Tetrasporangia in spiral series of up to 15 sporangia, more mature proximally, subspherical, 35–50 μm diam. when mature, markedly distending the bearing branch, tetrahedrally divided. Other reproductive structures not observed.
Distribution. Occurs in tropical waters of the Indian and western and central Pacific Oceans. In Western Australia known from the Dampier Archipelago and Robroy Reef, Kimberley.
Habitat. epilithic in the subtidal.
[After J.M. Huisman in Algae of Australia: Marine Benthic Algae of North-western Australia, 2. Red Algae: 539–542 (2018)]