Rhizoclonium sp.

Blanket Weed - a green algae at Stromlo, ACT

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Identification history

	Rhizoclonium sp.	28 Nov 2017	MichaelMulvaney
	Tribonema sp.	2 Nov 2017	KenT

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Not sure about this one, but not sure what else to suggest. In a pool near the river.

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MichaelMulvaney wrote:

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."

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Sighting information

1,001 - 10,000 Abundance
26 Sep 2017 10:14 AM Recorded on
KenT Recorded by
Collections
Algae, Cyanobacteria, other bacteria and viruses KenT Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Rhizoclonium sp.

Species information

Rhizoclonium sp. Scientific name
Blanket Weed - a green algae Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible