Nothocladus lindaueri Skuja
“Plants tufted, monoecious, mucilaginous, .5-7 cm high, 100-600 mm in diameter, profusely or sparingly branched, brown-red to olive-green; whorls usually slightly separated in young primary plants but confluent below. Cortical filaments and secondary fascicles very abundant. Primary fascicles di- tri- and tetrachotomously branched; secondary fascicles of similar structure and abundant; cells lunate, ellipsoidal to globular; proximal cells cylindrical to obovoidal; distal cells forming densely consolidated outer layer over markedly laxer inner cortex, terminal hairs common on fascicle, at times absent; spermatangia globular, 3-4 mm in diameter, terminal on specialized laterals arising from periaxial cells; carpogonium-bearing branches curved, consisting of 4-9 cells, arising from periaxial cells and cortical filaments but not from cells of fascicles; involucral filaments short; carpogonia 4-6 mm in diameter at the base, 20-40 mm long, trichogyne cylindrical or elongate clavate; carposporophytes indefinite in shape, consisting of branched gonimoblast filament of unlimited growth spreading through fascicles, producing carposporangium-bearing laterals in cymose clusters at whorl surface; carposporangia obovoidal or rarely ellipsoidal, 6-10 mm in diameter, 8-14 mm long, produced in profusion at surface of whorls.”
Kumano, S. 2002. Freshwater red algae of the world. Biopress Ltd. 375pp.
Type Locality: New Zealand.
Distribution: Australia, New Zealand.