Bryopsis minor Womersley
Pacific Science 387, fig. 1 (1955)
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 to 15 cm high, spreading to tufted, much branched irregularly radially, arising from branched rhizoids. Axes and main branches 150–350 µm in diameter, denuded below, scars conspicuous on older axes; laterals 40–80 µm in diameter; ramuli 1–3 mm long and (12–)20–55 µm in diameter; chloroplasts ovoid to lenticular, 4–10 µm long, with starch plates surrounding an indistinct pyrenoid.
Reproduction. By ovoid gametes (6–)8–10 µm long and 4–6 µm broad, each with 3–4 chloroplasts.
Distribution. Known from the Houtman Abrolhos, W. Aust., and from Kangaroo I., and Port MacDonnell, S. Aust.
[After Womersley, Mar. Benthic Fl. Southern Australia I: 276 (1984)]
