''Caulerpa hedleyi'' is a species of seaweed in the ''

Caulerpaceae Caulerpaceae is a family of green algae in the order Bryopsidales Bryopsidales is an order of green algae, in the class Ulvophyceae. It is a diverse group of mostly marine macroalgae. Characteristics The thallus is filamentous, highly branch ...

'' family. The seaweed has a robust

stolon In biology, a stolon ( from Latin ''wikt:stolo, stolō'', genitive ''stolōnis'' – "branch"), also known as a runner, is a horizontal connection between parts of an organism. It may be part of the organism, or of its skeleton. Typically, animal ...

with erect grey-green fronds reaching in height and wide. The species is found in deep heavily shaded waters. In Western Australia, it is found along the coast from

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and south as far as Esperance in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia and east to

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q41804886 hedleyi Protists described in 1910 Chlorophyta species