Botryocladia leptopoda (J.Agardh) Kylin
Die Florideenordnung Rhodymeniales 17 (1931)
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 8–20(–30) cm in height, deep to light red, arising from a discoid holdfast, with sparsely branched, percurrent axes bearing numerous, densely packed ellipsoid to clavate vesicles 4–5 mm long and 2–2.5 mm in diameter. Branch apices curved. In dried material the stems and vesicles mostly flattening and adhering to paper. Vesicle walls mostly 1–3 cell-layers thick, with a large celled medullary layer bearing a single layer of cortical cells, these forming rosettes around the medullary cells.
Distribution. Northern and western Australia; Red Sea; Indian Ocean; Indonesia; Japan.
Habitat. Epilithic in the intertidal and subtidal to 14 m depth.
