Sighting 3384398
Rhizoclonium sp.
Blanket Weed - a green algae at Stromlo, ACT
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| Rhizoclonium sp. | MichaelMulvaney | 28 Nov 2017 | |
| Tribonema sp. | KenT | 2 Nov 2017 |
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User's notes
Not sure about this one, but not sure what else to suggest. In a pool near the river.
1 comment
29 Nov 2017
Stephen Skinner of the NSW Herbarium said this "is most probably a Rhizoclonium blanket-weed, from those reinforced cell end-walls. Skinner & Entwisle (2004) called most of the freshwater collections in Australia R. riparium, but both Kraft in Hobart and Bedekker in Wellington have suggested, strongly, that we were too broad in our definition. The flood-runner pools and the 'open sky' at Woodstock favour Rhizoclonium, the water is hot and the DO is depleted, just what blanket-weeds like."
Location information
- Coordinates 148.958361-35.238111
- Maps Woodstock Nature Reserve
- Places Stromlo, ACT
Sighting information
- 1,001 - 10,000 Abundance
- 26 Sep 2017 10:14 AM Recorded on
- KenT Recorded by
Collections
- KenT Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Rhizoclonium sp. Algae, Cyanobacteria, other bacteria and viruses
Species information
- Rhizoclonium sp. Scientific name
- Blanket Weed - a green algae Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible