Desmarestiales is an order in the brown algae (Phaeophyceae). Members of this order have terete or ligulate (flat) pinnately branched thalli attached by discoid holdfasts. They have a sporophytic thallus usually aggregated to form a pseudo-parenchyma.[1] The order gets its name from the genus Desmarestia, which is named after the French zoologist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784–1838).[2][3]
| Desmarestiales | |
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| Desmarestia aculeata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Phylum: | Gyrista |
| Subphylum: | Ochrophytina |
| Class: | Phaeophyceae |
| Subclass: | Fucophycidae |
| Order: | Desmarestiales Setchell & Gardner |
| Families | |
As the general name of the class suggests, their pigmentation is brown.
References
edit- ^ 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
- ^ Lamouroux, Jean Vincent Félix (1813). "Essai sur les genres de la famille des thalassiophytes non articulées" (PDF). Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (in French). 20: 43–45. OCLC 2099267. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
Further reading
editYang, 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. hdl:2164/4222. PMID 26988016. S2CID 14459493.
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