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Bottlebrush green seaweed
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Bottlebrush green seaweed

Caulerpa webbiana

Caulerpa webbiana, commonly known as bottlebrush green seaweed, is a species of seaweed in the family Caulerpaceae.

The seaweed has an olive green to bright green thallus that spreads outward to around 12 to 20 centimetres (4.7 to 7.9 in) forming dense clumps on coral rubble among seagrasses. The stems are about 4 to 6 centimetres (1.6 to 2.4 in) in length and have small bristles composed of many fine branched filaments, that are arranged in whorls around the stolon in the middle so that it resembles a stiff bottlebrush.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 131323.