Gymnangium ascidioides (Bale, 1882)

Aglaophenia ascidioides Bale, 1882: 20, pl. 13, fig. 4.

Halicornaria ascidioides .— Bartlett, 1907: 43. — Jäderholm, 1917: 21, pl. 2, fig. 13. — Briggs, 1918: 34, 43, pl. 6, fig. 3. — Bedot, 1921: 346.— Shepherd & Watson, 1970: 140.— Watson, 1994: 67.

Gymnangium ascidioides .—Watson, 2003: 254. — Watson, 2005: 568, fig. 26 A–D.

Material examined. Preserved material (no slides prepared). PIRSA Stn QMP2.

Comment. One colony of short pinnate stems and hydrothecae with deeply cuspate margin. The species is described and figured by Watson (2005). The deep reddish brown colour of the colony is distinctive. Distribution. Southern Australia.