Rhipidosiphon javensis Mont.
Prodromus generum specierumque phycearum novarum 15 (1842)
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 to 2 cm tall, with flabellate or cuneate blades borne on a monosiphonus stipe attached to the substratum by branched, lobed rhizoids. Attachment rhizoids digitate, irregularly swollen, 25–60 µm in diameter. Stipe 80–100 µm in diameter, 1.8 mm long, grading abruptly into a blade formed from dichotomously branched siphons with fused calcified cell walls 10–15 µm thick; blade siphons 35–45 µm in diameter at upper margin, 85–110 µm in diameter near base, the filaments unequally constricted above each dichotomy.
Distribution.
Tropical waters of the eastern Indian Ocean and western and central
Pacific. In W.
Habitat. Growing on intertidal rock walls and shallow subtidal coral reef.
