Lessonia flavicans

Lessonia flavicans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Sar
Clade: Stramenopiles
Division: Ochrophyta
Class: Phaeophyceae
Order: Laminariales
Family: Lessoniaceae
Genus: Lessonia
Species:
L. flavicans
Binomial name
Lessonia flavicans
A historical botanical plate showing a drawing of *Lessonia* kelp fronds and stipes from Joseph Dalton Hooker's Flora Antarctica
Botanical illustration of *Lessonia* from Hooker's *Flora Antarctica*

Lessonia flavicans is a species of kelp in the genus Lessonia, native to the shallow seas off the far south of South America and the Falkland Islands.[1] It is the only alga to have the form of a tree, having a stem up to 20 cm (7.9 in) thick and up to 3 m (9.8 ft) tall, topped by dichotomous clusters of flaccid fronds each up to a metre long, and bringing the total height to 4 m (13 ft).[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Nardelli, Allyson E.; Visch, Wouter; Wright, Jeffrey T.; Hurd, Catriona L. (2023). "Concise review of genus Lessonia Bory" (PDF). Journal of Applied Phycology. 35 (4): 1485–1498. doi:10.1007/s10811-023-02968-3. ISSN 0921-8971. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
  2. ^ Sir Joseph Hooker, ed. (1847). Botany of the Antarctic Voyage - Volume 1 Part 2 - Algae. london: Lovell-Reeve. pp. 457–460.
  3. ^ Fritsch D.Sc., F. E. (1945). Structure and Reproduction of the Algae - Volume 2. Cambridge, England: Cambridge Univ. Press. p. 204.
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