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unusual facts about brown algae


Brown algae

Brown algae are unique among heterokonts in developing into multicellular forms with differentiated tissues, but they reproduce by means of flagellated spores and gametes that closely resemble cells of other heterokonts.


Bull kelp

Bull kelp is a common name for a number of species of kelp (members of the brown algae family Laminariaceae).

Tricolia miniata

This species occurs in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean off Portugal, off the Strait of Gibraltar and in the Southern Mediterranean Sea, found on brown algae Cystoseira tamariscifolia (Hudson) Papenfuss, 1950.


see also

7-Phloroeckol

7-Phloroeckol is a phlorotannin found in the edible brown algae arame (Ecklonia bicyclis) and turuarame (Ecklonia stolonifera).

Difucol

Difucol is a phlorotannin found in the brown algae Analipus japonicus and Cystophora retroflexa.

Trifucol

Trifucol is a phlorotannin found in the brown algae Scytothamnus australis and Analipus japonicus.