Chaetomorpha billardierii Kütz.
Botanische Zeitung 166 (1847)
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 light green, becoming yellow-green, loose-lying in extensive entangled masses (up to several metres across) of fairly straight filaments, in sheltered lower eulittoral to upper sublittoral habitats. Filaments without attachment cells, of similar diameter throughout. Cells (200–)220–350(–450) µm in diameter and L/B (1–)1.5–3(–4), not or only very slightly incised at the cross walls; wall 3–8(–20) µm thick, in some species thickened especially at the cross walls; chloroplasts openly reticulate with numerous pyrenoids; nuclei numerous.
Reproduction. Unknown.
Distribution. From Esperance, W. Aust., to the north coast of Kangaroo I., S. Aust., and around Tas.
Habitat. Loose-lying in calm-water situations.
[After Womersley, Mar. Benthic Fl. Southern Australia I: 176 (1984)]
