Morphological description (show/hide)
Stipitate, digitate, irregularly branching, bifurcate, cylindrical or flattened digits. | Orange-brown to red-brown alive, darkens in t | Not seen. | Woody stalk, firm, flexible branches. | Optically even, microconulose, each conule with single large extra-axial style. | Condensed axis, irregularly reticualte, cored by choan. oxeas/anisoxeas, axis shape stellate, subect. extra-axial skeleton radial. | Hispid, protruding subet. extra-axial styles with brushes of surrounding ect. styles/oxeas. | Choan. axial oxeas/anisoxeas (189-339 x 5-25 um), subect. extra-axial styles (1110-4543 x 6-31 um), ect. styles/anisoxeas (288-652 x 1-8 um), echinating spicules absent. | Raphides in bundles (trichodragmata) (51-111 x 6-13 um). |
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