Directory of Phaeophyta Resources

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Members of the kingdom Phaeophyta are the brown algae or seaweeds, a group of photosynthetic protists. They contain chlorophylls a and c, not a and b as do plants. The brown colour comes from the pigment xanthophyll. Many brown seaweeds have a blade or thallus and a holdfast for anchorage. They form great forests in some shallow oceans and there are about 1500 known species.

Subcategories

• Alariaceae
• Chordariaceae
• Cutleriaceae
• Cystoseiraceae
• Desmarestiaceae
• Dictyotaceae
• Ectocarpaceae
• Fucaceae
• Himanthaliaceae
• Laminariaceae
• Lessoniaceae
• Phyllariaceae
• Sargassaceae
• Scytosiphonaceae
• Sporochnaceae

Resources in This Category

• Introduction to the Phaeophyta

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/chromista/phaeophyta.html
  Brief introduction to the brown algae or phaeophytes, a group of photosynthetic protists, almost all of which are marine, including rockweed and kelp. Includes biochemical information, reproduction and life cycle, and why they are no longer classified as plants.

• The Intertidal Rocky Shore: Brown Seaweeds

  http://www.seafriends.org.nz/enviro/habitat/rsbrown.htm
  Photographs of about 30 species of brown algae that grow around the coasts of New Zealand.

 

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