Bornetella oligospora Solms
Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg 87-90, pl. 9 figs1-4,6-7 (1892)
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 bright green, clavate, to 2–4 cm in height, 3–6 mm in diameter. Structure with 24–30 primary laterals per whorl, each branching into (3–)4(–5) secondary segments that form a faceted cortex. Each facet with one dichotomously branched, eventually deciduous, hair.
Reproduction. Gametangial cysts 4–12 per primary filament, spherical, 100–150 µm in diameter. Gametangia 4–8 per cyst.
Distribution.
Tropical Indo-Pacific. In
Habitat. Epilithic in the shallow subtidal and lower intertidal, often occurring in dense clusters.
