Pithophora

Pithophora
Pithophora roettleri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Clade: Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: UTC clade
Order: Cladophorales
Family: Pithophoraceae
Genus: Pithophora
Wittrock
Species

Pithophora is a genus of green algae in the family Pithophoraceae.[1]

This kind of filamentous algae has a coarse texture to it hence often referred to as "horse hair".

  1. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Pithophora. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.