chiquitita Oblique Absent Smooth, From Millard, 1957 elongated,
hydrorhiza widening distally L.
Description: Colonies orange or dark golden, erect, fragile, sparingly and irregularly branched, up to 12 mm high, always arising from a creeping
hydrorhiza. Hydrocaulus monosiphonic; each branch arising from a slightly curved aphophysis given off below hydrothecae of pedicel from which if arises.
Newly settled individuals that did not develop to hydrocaulus and
hydrorhiza elongation retained small numbers of AIs in the aboral tentacle tips (Al, 16.1 [+ or -] 13.1; S, 199.3 [+ or -] 60.9; D, 168.6 [+ or -] 54.7; MM, 35.9 [+ or -] 16.5; the total, 419.8 [+ or -] 71.8).
In general, a colony comprises two parts: a net of tubes (stolons or
hydrorhiza) generally fixed to a substratum, and shoots (hydrocauli) emerging vertically from these stolons in a more or less regular pattern.