Ulva compressa | Wilsons Promontory Virtual Herbarium

Common name:

Thread Weed

Family:

Distribution (from Flora of Victoria):

Throughout southern Australia [11]

Distribution and ecological preference at Wilsons Promontory (if known):

Shallow water to 25 m¹

Flower description:

N/A

Habit:

Green algae with medium green thallus 2-20 cm high, erect and basally attached. Much branched from near the base and above¹

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Other comments:

This species appears as Enteromorpha compressa in The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia Part I (1984)

References:

¹ Womersley, H. B. S. (1984). “The marine benthic flora of Southern Australia. Rhodophyta. Part I”. ABRS, Canberra.