Morphological description (show/hide)
spreading, lobate, digitate | purple in life, bluish-purple on deck | light greenish-grey | singular, moderately sized, apical on digits, with raised membranous lips | firm, compressible, difficult to tear | opaque, membranous, ineven, microconulose, slightly fibrous in ethanol | fibrous, irregular reticulation of primary and secondary fibres, primary fibres ascending, cored by sand grains, lightly fasciculated near surface, secondary fibres with incorporated sand grains, mesohyl slightly green, with abundant collagen filaments, collagen filaments knobbed | membranous, without sand armour, but may have few scattered sand grains, pushed up into conules by asscending choanosomal fibres | nil | nil |
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