Morphological description (show/hide)
thickly encrusting, lobate. | orange in life, beige in ethanol. | large, irregularly scattered over surface, sessile. | soft, spongy, fibrous, difficult to tear. | sculptured, irregular, rough surface, opaque, membranous. | thin, distinct, collagen moderately dense, denser than in choanosome, homogeneous, fibrous skeleton from choanosome rises into ectosome. | regular, reticulate, well-formed, fine verticillate styles echinate fibres, collagen moderate, homogeneous, foreign spicules and debris scattered in matrix. | acanthostyles: verticillate, ~70-130 um. | nil. |
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