Ceratodictyon spongiosum Zanardini
Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano 37 (1878)
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 (alga together with sponge symbiont) to 10 cm tall, dark green to purple, erect or decumbent (the latter particularly in the intertidal and areas of high water movement), attached at several points, with terete or slightly flattened axes 3–6(–20) mm wide. Algal axes 100–250(–350) µm in diameter. Outer cortex single layered in vegetative axes, but in fertile axes may consist of small-celled, anticlinal filaments.
Distribution.
In
Habitat. Epilithic in the intertidal and shallow subtidal.
