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Fucus spiralis - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Afife, Viana do Castelo, Portugal; 6/2008 © Jörn Germer

Fucus spiralis - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Afife, Viana do Castelo, Portugal; 6/2008 © Jörn Germer

Fucus spiralis - Reproductive bodies at rounded swollen tips on the branches - Click to enlarge!

Reproductive bodies at rounded swollen tips on the branches; Afife, Viana do Castelo, Portugal; 6/2008 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 920
Date of entry: 06.09.2008
Last update: 10.01.2020

Common name

English: Spiral Wrack

German: Spiraltang

Classification

Kingdom: Chromista (3)

  Phylum: Ochrophyta (1)

    Class: Phaeophyceae (1)

      Order: Fucales (1)

        Family: Fucaceae (1)

          Genus: Fucus (1)

            Epithet: spiralis Linnaeus (2)

spiralis => coiled, wound round

Characteristics

Climate: temperate, sub-tropical

Habitat: hydrophytic

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