Family: Corallinaceae |
Bocas Species Database Habitat: Infrequent on solid substrates. Distribution: This genus is widely distributed throughout the world’s oceans, including temperate and tropical oceans. Characteristics: This is an articulated, upright calcified alga that grows to approximately 12 cm in height. Main branches and genicula are cylindrical, with a loosely pinnate branching pattern. Conceptacles have a central pore, are spherical to urn-shaped, formed in terminal apical genicula. Notes: Superficially, this plant appears to be H. cubense; however, it is much taller than 3 cm, as is reported for this species in the literature (Littler & Littler, 2000). It can be differentiated from H. subulatum by the position of the conceptacles which are borne in swollen apical segments. |