Florideophyceae
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Florideophyceae is a class of exclusively multicellular red algae.[3][4] They were once thought to be the only algae to bear pit connections,[5] but these have since been found in the filamentous stage of the Bangiaceae.[6] They were also thought only to exhibit apical growth, but there are genera known to grow by intercalary growth.[6] Most, but not all, genera have three phases to the life cycle.[6] In the subclass Nemaliophycidae there are three orders, Balbianiales, Batrachospermales, and Thoreales, which lives exclusively in freshwater.[7]
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Florideophyceae Temporal range: Neoproterozoic–present[1] | |
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"Florideae" from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, 1904 | |
Scientific classification | |
(unranked): | Archaeplastida |
Division: | Rhodophyta |
Subdivision: | Eurhodophytina |
Class: | Florideophyceae Cronquist, 1960[2] |
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