Caulerpa lentillifera

Thallus light grass green to dark green, forming creeping stolons, bearing erect grapelike branches to 9 cm high densely covered with spherical branchlets, 1.5-2.2(-3) mm diam., arranged in 5-8 longitudinal rows. The branchlets stalked (1 mm long) with a distinct constrictions below the branchlets. Stolons stout, 1-2 mm diam., bearing colorless (or light greenish), long, sparsely branched rhizoids. Common on coral reefs. Growing on rocky, sandy, sandy-muddy bottom with dead coral blocks in shallow protected areas.

Note: The alga is cultivated in Japan, Vietnam.

Subtropical and tropical waters of Indian and Pacific Oceans. In countries of the Asia-Pacific Region: Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Australia and New Zealand, Pacific Islands.