Dilsea carnosa
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| Dilsea carnosa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Clade: | Archaeplastida |
| Division: | Rhodophyta |
| Class: | Florideophyceae |
| Order: | Gigartinales |
| Family: | Dumontiaceae |
| Genus: | Dilsea |
| Species: | D. carnosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Dilsea carnosa | |
| Synonyms | |
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Fucus carnosus Schmidel (1794) | |
Dilsea carnosa, commonly known as the poor man's weather glass or the sea belt, is a species of red algae in the Dumontiaceae family of the order Gigartinales.
The species was first described scientifically by Schmidel in 1794, under the name Fucus carnosus. The German botanist Otto Kuntze transferred the species to Dilsea in 1898.[1]
Description
This large alga is dark red, flattened and somewhat leathery. It may be 30 cm or more long and 15 cm wide. It is usually not branched but may split.[2] It grows from a small discoid base.[3] The mature blade has a compact medulla enclosed within a cortex of rounded cells inwards and outwards of close radial filaments of about 6 cells.[4] It grows from a discoid holdfast with a short stipe.[5]