The archegoniophore of M. berteroana appears in September in a terminal position on the thallus. The stalk is up to 8 cm. high. This obs fits that, clearly by eye, and if it were M. foliacea it would be under 2 cm. (The heads are about 1 cm diameter.)
Tuatara: Volume 13, Issue 2, July 1965, E.O. Campbell.
Observed near the track in the native bush (daytime).
Adjacent to water race. Green material was hard, rough and fairly rigid.
It is missing a little bit of tail. Created great interest to a novice beach comber who proudly carried it home.
Photo: Leonie Rennie
Heartened by the recent discovery of a confirmed ruby seadragon, which I had given to an enthusiastic lady on the beach, I thought that next time I was in Hopetoun, I would look through the ones I had previously collected. I read the Stiller, Wilson & Rouse paper and convinced myself that this also is a ruby seadragon. I don't know when I collected it or exactly where but it was well before this website began. This means that 20% of the seadragons I have found over the last 8 years have been ruby seadragons.
Photos Leonie Rennie
found washed up at high tide mark