Siphonocladus tropicus (P.Crouan & H.Crouan) J.Agardh
Acta Universitatis Lundensis. Lunds Universitets Årsskrift. Afdelningen för Mathematik och Naturvete 105 (1887)
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 upright, to 4–5 cm high, attached by non-septate rhizoids, with numerous erect cylindrical axes arising from the base. Axes to 3mm in diameter, with basal annular constrictions. Lateral branches formed from protoplasts of parent branch, these rounding-up and then forming irregularly radial protrusions along the parent branch that grow to 1–2 cm in length. All branches with rounded apices.
Habitat. Epilithic in the subtidal.
