Morphological description (show/hide)
| erect, semi-tubular-digitate, bushy, irregularly branching | | orange-red, orange-brown, yellow-brown, purpl | | at base of surface conules, 1-2mm diameter, sessile | | mucusy, soft and friable, fragile, compressible, a little spongy | | scattered surface conules, fibrous, shaggy, opaque | | reticulate, anastomosing light fibres, cored with pauci- to unispicular tracts of subtylostyles, fibres nearly dendritic in places, fibre skeleton composed of primary and smaller secondary fibres, detritus present in some fibres and abundant in mesohyl, heavy mesohyl collagen | | Long fibres ascending from the choanosome form tendril-like projections past the surface of the sponge. The fibres are embedded with paucispicular tracts of fine subtylostyles. Fine pauci- to unispicular paratangential tracts of subtylostyles are found supporting the large ascending fibres. | | Subtylostyles - long, thin (254-282 x 2-4 um) | | Anisochelae (22-32 um) (sometimes Nil), Sigmas (48-54 x 2 um) (sometimes Nil) |
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