Desmarestiales
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| Desmarestiales | |
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| Desmarestia aculeata | |
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| Kingdom: | Chromalveolata |
| Division: | Heterokontophyta |
| Class: | Phaeophyceae |
| Order: | Desmarestiales Setchell & Gardner[disambiguation needed  ] |
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Desmarestiales is an order in the brown algae (class Phaeophyceae). Member of this order have terete or ligulate (flat) pinnately branched thalli attached by discoid holdfasts. They have a sporphytic thallus usually aggregated to form a pseudo parenchyma.[1] The genus Desmarestia is named after the French zoologist Anselme-Gaétan Desmarest (1784 - 1838)[2].
As their general name of the class suggests their pigmentation is brown.
[edit] References
- ^ Pound F.E. 1962 “The Biology of the Algae” Edward Arnold Ltd.
- ^ Genaust, Helmut (1976). Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen ISBN 3-7643-0755-2
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