Chaetomorpha indica (Kütz.) Kütz.
Species algarum 376 (1849)
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 to medium green, loose-lying as masses of long strands (to 15 cm long) or entangled with other algae, in the uppermost sublittoral. Filaments unbranched, apparently without attachment cells, of similar diameter throughout. Cells (100–)105–130(–150) µm in diameter and L/B (1–)1.5–2.5, often collapsing on drying; wall 3–7 µm thick; chloroplasts openly to fairly densely reticulate, with numerous pyrenoids; nuclei numerous.
Reproduction. Unknown.
Distribution. Qld. In southern Australia, known from Walpole Inlet, W. Aust., Coffin Bay and Robe, S. Aust., and Swan Bay, Port Phillip, Vic. Probably more widely distributed in sheltered waters.
[After Womersley, Mar. Benthic Fl. Southern Australia I: 180 (1984)]
