Hypnea

Hypnea
Hypnea musciformis
Scientific classification
Clade: Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Order: Gigartinales
Family: Cystocloniaceae
Genus: Hypnea
J.V.Lamouroux, 1813
Species

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Hypnea is a genus of red algae, and a well known carrageenophyte (plant producing polysaccharide carrageenan).