Morphological description (show/hide)
Unbranched cylindrical digits, long stem. | Beige-white in ethanol. | Not seen. | Firm, flexible, woody central stem, fleshy branches. | Optically even, microscopically rugose, hispid, minute conules and ridges. | Fasciculated axial core of choan. styles, little spongin, extra-axial spicule tracts thick bundles perpendicular to core, composed of subect. styles/anisoxeas, barely protruding through surface. | Sparse brushes ect. styles surrounding brushes of subect. extra-axial styles, heavy collagen. | Choan. axial styles (287-524 x 5-9 um), subect. extra-axial styles/ (514-1355 x 9-25 um), ect. styles/anisoxeas (96-392 x 1-5 um), echinating spicules absent. | nil. |
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