External characters
arborescent, with erect digitate branches.
Colour
bright orange-red in life; greyish-beige in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | small, between numerous surface conules. |
| Texture | firm, compressible. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | many regular bifircate surface processes, producing a Reniochalina-type surface. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | plumose brushes of spicules protrude through surface, push surface membrane into conules. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | plumo-reticulate, without axial compression; primary fibres multispicular, ascending, plumose, spongin, cored by styles; primary fibres interconnected by paucispicular, transverse, secondary fibres cored by styles; light, granular collagen in mesohyl. |
| Megascleres | styles: slightly subtylote. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | Queensland Museum |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society, Tuamotu and Marquesas islands
Pacific ocean: Australia, Fiji, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon islands, Vanuatu
Ecology and habitat
Mainly on the outer reef slope, or on the rocky wall/slope in Marquesas.
On pinacles in the lagoon in Tuamotu islands
