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Electronic Flora of South Australia Family Fact Sheet
Phylum Chlorophyta – Order Chaetophorales
Thallus heterotrichous with prostrate and erect systems usually well developed, without hairs. Cells with chloroplasts usually other than grass-green due to excess of carotenoid pigments (e.g. Trentepohlia, red; Pilinia, yellow-green); reproductive organs usually differentiated from vegetative cells (Papenfuss 1962, p. 9).
Taxonomic notes: This family contains only a few genera and is sometimes considered to include essentially aerial algae such as Trentepohlia. Only the marine genus Pilinia is recorded from southern Australian seas.
References:
PAPENFUSS, G.F. (1962). On the circumscription of the Green Algal genera Ulvella and Pilinia. Phykos 1, 6–12.
The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia Part I complete list of references.
Publication:
Womersley, H.B.S. (31 May, 1984)
The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia
Part I
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