Pithophora

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Pithophora
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Pithophora roettleri
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(unranked): Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Ulvophyceae
Order: Cladophorales
Family: Pithophoraceae
Genus: Pithophora
Wittrock
Species

Pithophora is a genus of green algae in the family Pithophoraceae. [1]

This kind of filamentous algae has a coarse texture to it hence often referred to as "horse hair".

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References

  1. See the NCBI webpage on Pithophora. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2007-03-19.