''Caulerpa webbiana'', commonly known as bottlebrush green seaweed, is a species of seaweed in the family '' Caulerpaceae''. The seaweed has an olive green to bright green

thallus Thallus (: thalli), from Latinized Greek (), meaning "a green shoot" or "twig", is the vegetative tissue of some organisms in diverse groups such as algae, fungi, some liverworts, lichens, and the Myxogastria. A thallus usually names the entir ...

that spreads outward to around forming dense clumps on coral rubble among seagrasses. The stems are about in length and have small bristles composed of many fine branched filaments, that are arranged in whorls around the stolon in the middle so that it resembles a stiff bottlebrush. The species was first formally described in 1837 by the botanist

Camille Montagne Jean Pierre François Camille Montagne (15 February 1784 – 5 December 1866) was a French people, French military physician and botanist who specialized in the fields of bryology and mycology. Life Montague was born in the commune of Vaudoy i ...

as part of the work ''Centurie de plantes cellulaires exotiques nouvelles'' as published in ''Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Seconde série''. The only known synonym is ''Chauvinia webbiana'' as described by Friedrich Traugott Kützing in 1849. The type specimen was collected from around

Lanzarote Lanzarote (, , ) is a Spanish island, the easternmost of the Canary Islands, off the north coast of Africa and from the Iberian Peninsula. Covering , Lanzarote is the fourth-largest of the islands in the archipelago. With 163,230 inhabi ...

in the

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. The species is found in warmer waters in sediment or in

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s. It is found around the Canary Islands, islands in the

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and Hawaii. It is also found is parts of Asia including

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. In

Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ...

, it is found along the coast in the

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region extending south to the Houtman Abrolhos.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q48996866 webbiana Plants described in 1837 Algae of Australia Algae of Hawaii