Morphological description (show/hide)
| Erect, stipitate, branching robust bifurcate branches in 1 plane. | | Olive-brown alive. | | Large, dispersed on lateral sides of branches. | | Firm, flexible, stalk woody, branches barely compressible. | | Optically smooth, composed of adjoining oral plates forming low microconules-plates composed of discrete groups of subect. spicules. | | Condensed axial fibres, reticulate, cored by axial oxeas, extra-axial subect. skeleton plumose, radially arranged extra-axial styles in a tight sheath perpendicuar to core surrounded by second category of subect. extra-axial oxeas/anioxeas, becoming more plumose near periphery. | | Continuous palisade of ect. oxeas in brushes, erect on surface, associated with radial groups of subect. extra-axial styles. | | Choan. axial oxeas/anioxeas (354-623 x 6-18 um), subect. extra-axial styles (985-1956 x 21-48 um), subect. styles (154-373 x 3-12 um). Echinating spicules absent. | | nil. |
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