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Red Algae
Rhodophyta
Lemanea fucina

Lemanea fucina

Algal Web - Napier University

Profile: Rhodophyte in which the red color is masked, usually grey-green. Wiry or spurlike, relatively thick and cartilaginous. 2-20 cm height, erect but commonly bent flat in swift-water habitats. Macroscopically unbranched or with very short branches at nodes, but axis is a complex of branched longitudinal filaments surrounding a thick cortex. Commonly in swift water and waterfalls.

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