Microdictyon okamurae Setch.
Univ.Calif.Publ.Bot. 14:14, Figs 76-84 (1929)
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 medium to dark olive green, to 3.5 cm tall, with several loosely organized complanate blades with ragged margins. Blades reticulate, formed by much-branched, anastomosing filaments, these 190–250 µm in diameter, 485–630 µm long and bearing up to 5 branches per node. Adhesion of filaments to target filaments by digitate processes. Cells with a reticulum of plastids, with numerous spherical pyrenoids 2–3 µm in diameter.
Distribution.
Widespread in tropical waters of the
Habitat. Epilithic.
