Morphological description (show/hide)
| erect, cylindrical, lobate. | | brown in ethanol, stains ethanol brown. | | wide, ~ 5 mm, abundant, all over surface. | | smooth, sandpaper-like, hispid, compressible. | | rocks and other organisms attached to surface. | | membranous, lightly packed with detritus, tracts of megascleres visible just under surface. | | reticulation of thick spongin fibres, fibres cored by verticillated acanthostyles, skeleton quite cavernous, mesohyl collagen between fibres. | | acanthostyles: verticillate, ~100 ï¾µm. | | nil. |
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