Pseudocodium australasicum Womersley
Pacific Science 390, figs 5,6 (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 dark green, erect, subdichotomous to irregularly branched partly in one plane, to 6 cm high, branches 1–2 mm broad, compressed, holdfast small. Medulla of longitudinal, branched filaments 13–28 µm in diameter, forming a surface cortical layer (12–27 µm wide) of short clavate branches 4–7 µm in diameter adhering together as seen in surface view. Chloroplasts ovoid, 2–3 µm long; amyloplasts sparse.
Reproduction. Unknown.
Distribution. From Hopetoun, W. Aust., to Point Sinclair, S. Aust.
[After Womersley, Mar. Benthic Fl. Southern Australia I: 246 (1984)]
