Sahlingia subintegra (Rosenv.) Kornmann
British Phycological Journal 227 (1989)
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 minute (usually 20–100 µm in diameter), forming more-or-less circular discs of radiating filaments usually closely adherent laterally, with a marginal row of single or often furcate apical cells, branching from the marginal cells, becoming 2–3 cells thick centrally; cells 4–8 µm in diameter and 6–10(–25) µm long, rhodoplasts parietal, laminate, with a single pyrenoid.
Reproduction. By monospores from sporangia cut off from central cells of the disc.
Distribution. Cosmopolitan. In southern Australia probably widespread but rarely preserved in herbaria. Cottesloe, W. Aust., around southern Australia and Tas., to Palm Beach, N.S.W.
[After Womersley, Mar. Benthic Fl. Southern Australia IIIA: 27 (1994) added as Erythrocladia subintegra]
