Morphological description (show/hide)
burrowing bulbous base, apical fistules, most blind, no observable rootlets, smooth, short, slender, cylindrical fistules, macro benthic fixed to substrate | olive brown, brown, olive green-brown, purpl | if present on end of fistule | rubbery flexible fistules | base with embedded detritus, fistules smooth, opaque, membranous | irregularly reticulate multispicular subectosomal tracts, reinforced with unispicular isotropic skeleton between major tracts, fibres relatively heavy but not fully cored, mesohyl moderately light and homogeneous. | tangential isodictyal layer of strongyloxeas, unispicular | Strongyloxeas I (60-110 x 4-7 um), Strongyloxeas II (40-60 x 3-4 um), Oxeas I (240 x 10 um), Oxeas II (140 x 2 um) | Sigmas (23 -32 x 1-2 um) |
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