Fucales
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Fucales is an order in the Phylum Phaeophyta or Brown algae.
The Fucales include some of the more common littoral seaweeds and the members of the order have the typical seaweed construction of a holdfast, stipe and lamina. The lamina is often much branched and may include gas filled bladders. Growth is by division of the apical cells.
They are Oogamous with the gametophyte generation reduced to the gametes formed in the thallus of the sporophyte.
As their general name suggests their pigmentation is brown.
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