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Dictyosiphonales

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iDictyosiphonales
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Protista
Division: Heterokontophyta
Class: Phaeophyceae
Order: Dictyosiphonales
Genera

Asperococcus
Coilodesme
Dictyosiphon
Ilea
Myriotrichia
Punctaria
Scytosiphon
Stictyosiphon

Dictyosiphonales is an order in the Phylum Phaeophyta or Brown algae. Member of this order have a sporphytic thallus with true parenchyma formed by both longitudinal and transverse cell division with a thallus that is solid, tubular flat, saccate, branched or foliose.

The Dictyosiphonales include some common littoral seaweeds but the members of the order generally have a relatively undifferentiated structure without the conventional construction of a holdfast, stipe and lamina. .<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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