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More or less erect, sometimes bushy. Size: 2-5 cm high. Branching: dichotomous, occasionally irregular . Intergenicula: tapered towards the base and flattened at the apices (up to 3 mm long, lower diameter 0.6-0.65 mm, upper diameter 0.4 mm) apices characteristically knife-like and striped. Genicula: with 2 (3-4) rows of cells. Colour of living specimen: pink, pink-violet. Colour of dried specimen: pink-violet to white.
Medulla: 2-3 rows of long cells: 70-90 µm long x 12-18 µm in diameter with an alternation of 1 row of short cells: 30µm long x 6-12 µm in diameter. Cortex: 5-13 rows of oblong cells (8-25 µm long). Epithallial cells: 5-14 µm in diameter. Cell connections: secondary pit-connections. Other features: trichocytes rarely observed. Original publication: Lamouroux, J.V.F. (1816). Histoire des polypiers coralligènes flexibles, vulgairement nommés zoophytes. pp. [i]-lxxxiv, chart, [1]-560, [560, err], pls I-XIX, uncol. by author. Caen: De l'imprimerie de F. Poisson.
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| Name History |
Named for the French botanist Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot, Baron de Beauvois (1752-1820). |
| Habitat: |
Like that of A. rigida, species of sheltered environments. Sublittoral, from surface to 30 m deep. |
| Type information: |
Type locality: Coast of Portugal (Harvey, Woelkerling & Millar 2009: 268). Holotype: unknown; CN unnumbered (Harvey, Woelkerling & Millar 2009: 268). |
