Type Locality: mountains of Mexico, Central America.
Distribution: Central Mexico, Central America.
“Plants bristle-like, cylindrical with bulges, unstalked, unbranched, whorled branched and re-branched, branches not to be confused, 290-620 mm in diameter, 3.6-11.4 cm long. Papillae greatly aggregated. Cellular structure, 4 celled layers, outer cortex smaller, inner gradually larger. Medullar layer, axial cortical filaments densely reticulate without gelatinous matrix. Carpospores in chain.”
Kumano, S. 2002. Freshwater red algae of the world. Biopress Ltd. 375pp.
