Lineolaria flexuosa
General description:
The most important difference between Lineolaria spinulosa and L. flexuosa is the presence of the basal hydrothecal spine in the former and its absence from the latter.
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Lineolaria flexuosa Bale, 1884
Lineolaria flexuosa
General description:Hydrorhiza flattened, adherent to substrate, with a small peripheral flange.
Hydrothecae usually alternate and set at an acute angle to the stolon or parallel with it, connected to the stolonal canal through a wide orifice. Hydrotheca rectangular to saccate, widest about the middle, adnate to substrate for most o f length, turning sharply upwards in the distal fifth. Margin delicate, circular to elliptical, with a pair of lateral lobes, aperture of immature hydrotheca closed by a delicate membranous flap.
Colonies dioecious, gonotheca large, situated beside a hydrotheca, male and female similar in shape and size, irregularly ovate, strongly flattened and adnate to the substrate by a wide peripheral flange, aperture distal, circular to subcircular, with thickened rim, the surface with small chitinous spines.
Colour: In life, colonies yellow or white, gonophores cream-coloured.
Distribution:Southeastern Australia (Victoria).
Habitat:Subtidal, epiphytic on seagrasses.