Dilsea carnosa
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Dilsea carnosa | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Division: | Rhodophyta |
Class: | Florideophyceae |
Order: | Gigartinales |
Family: | Dumontiaceae |
Genus: | Dilsea |
Species: | D. carnosa |
Binomial name | |
Dilsea carnosa (Schmidel) Kuntze (1898) | |
Synonyms | |
Fucus carnosus Schmidel (1794) | |
Dilsea carnosa, commonly known as the poor man's weather glass or the sea belt, is a species of red algae in the Dumontiaceae family of the order Gigartinales.
Taxonomy
The species was first described scientifically by Schmidel in 1794, under the name Fucus carnosus. The German botanist Otto Kuntze transferred the species to Dilsea in 1898.[1]
References
- ↑ Kuntze, O. (1898). Revisio generum plantarum. Part 3 (3). pp. 1-576. Leipzig, London, Milano, New York, Paris: Arthur Felix, Dulau & Co., U. Hoepli, Gust. A. Schechert, Charles Klincksierck.
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