Leathesia

Leathesia
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Gyrista
Subphylum: Ochrophytina
Class: Phaeophyceae
Order: Ectocarpales
Family: Chordariaceae
Genus: Leathesia
S.F.Gray, 1821

Leathesia is a genus of brown algae belonging to the family Chordariaceae.

The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.

Species:

  • Leathesia berkeleyi (Greville) Harvey
  • Leathesia difformis L.
  • Leathesia marina (Lyngb.) Decne.
  • Leathesia mucosa Feldmann, 1935
  • Leathesia nana S. & G.
  • Leathesia umbellata (C.Agardh) Endlichter
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