Type Locality: New Caledonia
Distribution: New Caledonia
"Plants moderately mucilaginous, delicate; branching irregular and abundant; apices straight, apical cells embedded within the fascicle tips; 2.0-3.0 cm high, 250-550 µm in diameter. Whorls well developed, usually distinct and confluent, obconic or barrel-shaped. Internode 350-650 µm long. Pericentral cells ovoid with 2 primary fascicles; rhizoidal filaments well developed, forming 1-2 layers of cylindrical cells. Primary fascicles straight, 8-11 cell-storeys; proximal cells cylindrical, elliptical or fusiform, L/D 3.5-7.5; distal cells elliptical or obovoid, L/D 1.5-3.0; branching dichotomous. Secondary fascicles abundant, covering the entire internode and as long as primary fascicles.
Monoecious. Spermatangia sub-spherical or spherical, terminal or sub-terminal on primary or secondary fascicles, 6.0-7.0 µm in diameter. Carpogonial branches, helically twisted, arising from pericentral cells, composed of 4-6 disc- or barrel-shaped cells; involucral filaments short, 1-3 cell-storeys; carpogonia 20-25 µm long; trichogyness obovoid, stalked or unstalked, 9.0-11.0 µm in diameter. Carposporophytes 1 per whorl, loose, semi-spherical, lower than the whorl radius, 200-250 µm in diameter, 100-130 µm high; gonimoblast filaments 3-6 cell-storeys; cells cylindrical or barrel-shaped; carposporangia obovoid, 12.0-20.0 µm in length, 10.0-12.0 µm in diameter."
Necchi, O. Jr. & Vis, M.L. 2012. Monograph of the genus Kumanoa (Rhodophyta, Batrachospermales). Bibliotheca Phycologica 116. J. Cramer. Pp. 78. ISBN 978-3-443-60043-3.
