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Desmarestiales

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iDesmarestiales
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Protista
Division: Heterokontophyta
Class: Phaeophyceae
Order: Desmarestiales
Setchell & Gardner
Genera

Arthrocladia
Desmarestia

Desmarestiales is an order in the Phylum Phaeophyta or Brown algae. 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. <ref>Pound F.E. 1962 “The Biology of the Algae” Edward Arnold Ltd. </ref>

As their general name suggests their pigmentation is brown.

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