Titanophora pikeana (Dickie) Feldmann
Bull.Soc.Bot.France 89:111, Figs 1-5 (1942)
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 but sometimes forming secondary attachments, to 15 cm in height, pale pink to whitish, mucilaginous, lightly calcified, arising from a discoid holdfast, flattened, foliose to irregularly dichotomously branched with numerous marginal branchlets. Branches 10–15 mm broad near the base, tapering to much-divided apices c. 1mm broad. Structure multiaxial, medulla filamentous, cortex filamentous with dichotomously divided filaments and intercalary gland cells.
Distribution.
Known from the
Habitat. Epilithic in the subtidal, usually associated with coral reefs.
