Superphylum Heterokonta Higher classification Brown algae | Scientific name Dictyosiphonales Rank Order | |
Similar Brown algae, Chordariaceae, Desmarestiales, Sporochnaceae, Ectocarpales | ||
Dictyosiphonales is an order in the class Phaeophyceae (brown algae). Members of this order have a sporphytic thallus with true parenchyma formed by both longitudinal as well as a transverse cell division with a thallus that is solid, tubular flat, saccate, branched or foliose.
The Dictyosiphonales includes some common littoral seaweeds, but the members of the order generally have a relatively undifferentiated structure without the conventional construction of a holdfast, stipe and lamina. .
As their general name suggests their pigmentation is brown.
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