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Name derivation:
After Fredrik A. Wrangel, Swedish phycologist.
Classification:
Wrangelia C. Agardh 1828; 21 of 62 species descriptions are currently accepted taxonomically (Guiry and Guiry 2016). Class Florideophyceae; Order Ceramiales; Family Wrangeliaceae
Morphology:
Uniseriate filaments with large central axial cells. Attahed by rhizoids.Axes are ecorticate or corticated by filaments from base of lateral branchlets. May be multilayered cortication (Dawes and Mathieson 2008). .
Similar genera:
Griffithsia, Callithamnion (Ibid.)
Habitat:
Semitropical to tropical marine shores, often on limestone or epiphytic on seagrass and seaweeds. Widespread (Ibid.).
References:
Agardh, C.A. (1828). Species algarum rite cognitae, cum synonymis, differentiis specificis et descriptionibus succinctis. Voluminis secundi. Sectio prior. pp. [i]-lxxvi, [i]-189. Gryphiae [Greifswald]: sumptibus Ernesti Mauriti [Ernst Mauritius]. Dawes, C.J. and A.C. Mathieson 2008. Seaweeds of Florida. University Press of Florida (592 pp). Guiry, M.D. and G.M. Guiry 2016. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 30 May 2014.