Hooper, J N A, Cook, S D, Kennedy, J A, Tomkins, P A and List-Armitage, S |
Morphological description (show/hide)
lobate, stoloniferous, spreading over substrate, with erect, blind tapering fistules, looks superficially like Lamellodysidea herbacea (Keller, 1889) | unknown colour in life, dark olive-green on d | few, small, between fistules on surface | firm, compressible, slightly harsh | opaque, membranous, uneven, microconulose | fibrous, irregular reticulation of fibres, fibres not readily distinguishable as primary or secondary, fully cored by relatively large sand-grain detritus, mesohyl collagen moderately light, homogeneous, lacks foreign inclusions, collagen filaments knobbed, abundant in choanosome, some slightly darkly pigmented | membranous, with even scattering of fine sand-grain detritus surface regularly pushed up into microconules by ascending choanosomal fibres | nil | nil |
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