Morphological description (show/hide)
| Stipitate, palmat-digitate, cylindrical stalk, digits fured and flattened, branching in >1 plane, or simply digitate. | | Dark orange-brown to dark grey-brown alive, o | | Not seen. | | Firm, flexible. | | Optically even, microscopically villose, very hispid. | | Axial skeleton condensed fibres, reticulate, cored by choan.axial oxeas, subect. extra-axial skeleton with radial paucispicular bundles of long subect. Styles, and plumose (-reticulate) brushes of choanosomal axial oxeas. | | Darkly pigmented heavy layer of spongin, protruding subect. styles surrounded by discrete bundles of ectosomal oxeas/anioxeas, erect or oblique. | | Choan. oxeas (229-612 x 3-20 um), subect. extra-axial styles (521 223 x 4-9 um), ect, oxeas/anioxeas (191-741 x 1-15 um), echinating spicules absent. | | nil. |
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