Corallinaceae

Corallinaceae
Temporal range:
Corallina pinnatifolia
Scientific classification
(unranked): Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Order: Corallinales
Family: Corallinaceae
Lamouroux, 1812
Subfamilies

Amphiroideae
Corallinoideae
Lithophylloideae
Mastophoroideae
Metagoniolithoideae

The Corallinaceae are one of the two extant Coralline families of red algae; they are differentiated from the morphologically similar Sporolithaceae by their formation of grouped sporangial chambers, clustered into sori. The Corallinoideae is monophyletic; the other subfamilies form another monophyletic group.

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