Desmarestiales
| Desmarestiales | |
|---|---|
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| Desmarestia aculeata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| (unranked): | SAR |
| Superphylum: | Heterokonta |
| Class: | Phaeophyceae |
| Order: |
Desmarestiales Setchell & Gardner |
| Families | |
Arthrocladiaceae
Desmarestiaceae
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. The genus Desmarestia is named after the French zoologist Anselme-Gaétan Desmarest (1784 - 1838).
As their general name of the class suggests their pigmentation is brown.
Yang, Eun; Peters, Akira; Kawai, Hiroshi (January 2014). "Ligulate Desmarestia (Desmarestiales, Phaeophyceae) revisited: D. japonica sp. nov. and D. dudresnayi differ from D. ligulata". Journal of Phycology. 50 (1): 149–166. doi:10.1111/jpy.12148.
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