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PHAEOPHYTA (brown algae)
Alaria esculenta
(Linnaeus) Greville, 1830
Lenght
:50-200 cm
Width:
3-20 cm
Thallus
bladed, with stalk. Blade olive- or yellowish- brown, folded- undulated, with a prominent flattened midrib. Lanceolate sporophylles developed on stalk. Lithophyte. In sublittoral, everywhere. Common, aboundant. High Boreal- arctic species.