Caulerpa chemnitzia

Thallus light to dark green, consisting of creeping slender stolons 1(-2) mm diam., bearing branched rhizoids and erect branches 1-3 cm high. The branches bear numerous peltate, disc-like branchlets (blades), 1.5-3.5(-5) mm diam., on slender stalk 1-2 mm long. Rhizoids fine, branched. Growing on dead coral colonies at low intertidal, upper subtidal (1-2 m depth) of moderately exposed shores, intermixed with other algal species in turf communities.

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