Caulerpa cliftonii Harv.
Phycologia australica synop. no. 728 (1863)
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. Stolon robust, 3–4 mm in diameter, cartilaginous, naked, epilithic. Erect fronds dark green, with simple to several times irregularly branched axes, usually 6–22 cm high and 2 cm across; axes terete, 1–1.5 mm in diameter, densely covered with irregularly placed ramuli from near their base. Ramuli (1–)2–3(–4) cm long, alternately branched (1–)3–5 times in their lower third to half, with the branches upwardly curved, terete, 300–500 µm in diameter, with a tapering, spinous to rounded apex.
Distribution. From Port Denison and the Abrolhos I., W. Aust., to Port Phillip Heads, Vic.
Habitat. Mainly in shaded rock pools on rough-water coasts, recorded to 50 m deep.
[After Womersley, Mar. Benthic Fl. Southern Australia I: 265 (1984)]
