Rhodophyta
Red algae are small delicate marine species with some occuring in fresh water. All species contain chlorophyll, which would otherwise be green in color but it is masked by other pigments, most of which appear to be pink or purplish. Several species of red algae are used as a food source by humans.
"Primarily marine plants characterized by the presence of chlorophyll a and phycobilins. Their carbohydrate reserve is a Floridean starch. No motile cells are present at any stage in the complex life cycle. The plant body is built up of closely packed filaments in a gelatinous matrix and is not differentiated into leaves, roots, and stem. It lacks specialized conducting cells. There are some 4,000 species."
Biology of Plants, Fourth Edition, Worth Publishers Inc., Stanford University, Peter H. Raven and Helena Curtis, ©1971
| Taxonomic Hierarchy | |
 Batrachospermum moniliforme |
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| Kingdom | Plantae – Vegetal, plants |
| Subkingdom | Biliphyta |
| Division | Rhodophyta – red algae |
| Direct Children: | |
| Subdivision | Cyanidiophytina |
| Subdivision | Rhodophytina |
| Rhodophyta, Taxonomic Serial No.: 660046 | |
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