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Thuretia quercifolia
A dense clump of pale orange seaweed with oak-leaf shaped fronds/thalli.
Washed-up onto the beach off Westernport Bay (Balnarring Beach)
My thanks to Janine Baker for the ID.
This species gets it's name "quercifolia" fro the oak-shaped fronds.
It is reported that this is a common and distinctive species found in deep waters in the rough-water coasts of southern Australia.
Phylum Rhodophyta – Order Ceramiales – Family Dasyaceae
Spotted on Jan 20, 2018
Submitted on Jan 21, 2018
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