Betaphycus speciosum (Sond.) Doty
University of California Publications in Botany 326 (1996)
Conservation Code:
Not threatened
Naturalised Status: Native to Western Australia
Name Status:
Current
Scientific Description
John Huisman & Cheryl Parker,
Monday 20 June 2011
Habit and structure. Thallus upright, to 6 cm in height, dark red, cartilaginous, irregularly branched, often with several percurrent axes arising from a common base. Axes terete to slightly flattened, 2–6 mm in diameter, with numerous constrictions and generally with surface spines and protuberances. Structure multiaxial.
Reproduction. Cystocarps born in inflated ends of lateral spinous branches.
Distribution.
From the
Habitat. Epilithic in the subtidal and in intertidal pools.
