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Description: |
Plants coarse and brownish red. Thalli terete, having a branching pattern of three determinate axes followed by one lateral indeterminate (d/d/d/i pattern). Prostate axes 120-150 µm diam., segments 0.8-1.3 diam. long., 7-9 pericentral cells. Erect determinate axes up to 1 mm in height, 70-80 µm diam., 8-13 segments with 0.81.0 diam. long, 7-8 pericentral cells. Apex blunt with an inconspicuous apical cell. Vegetative trichoblasts rudimentary, 1-3 at the tips of determinate axes in successive segments, pseudodichotomously divided 24 times (Silva and Fujii 2012). |
| References |
Silva, I.B. and M.T. Fujii. 2012. The genus herposiphonia (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) in the coral reefs environmental protection area, Northeastern Brazil, with new records for Brazil and the Atlantic Ocean. Brazilian Journal of Botany 35: 107-118. |
