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Red algae characters
  Habitat
   Marine
   Freshwater
  Calcification
   Thallus calcified with flexible non-calcified joints
   Calcified thallus crustose, knobbed or branched.
   Thallus not calcified
  Habit
   Jointed calcareous
   Erect or decumbent corticated forms. Branched or thick membranes.
   Filamentous
   Foliose, thin, membranous and sheet-like forms
   Calcified crust, knobbed or branched
   Soft and Gelatinous
  Life cycle
   Bi-phasic life cycle
   Tri-phasic life cycle
  Main axis
   Uniaxial
   Multiaxial
  Pit plug
   Absent
   Present

Rhodophyta (red algae)

Species Count: 314

Acrosymphytaceae

Areschougiaceae

Bonnemaisoniaceae

Callithamniaceae

Caulacanthaceae

Ceramiaceae

Champiaceae

Compsopogonaceae

Corallinaceae

Corynomorphaceae

Cystocloniaceae

Dasyaceae

Delesseriaceae

Faucheaceae

Galaxauraceae

Gelidiaceae

Gelidiellaceae

Gigartinaceae

Gracilariaceae

Halymeniaceae

Hapalidiaceae

Hemiuridae

Hildenbrandiaceae

Hydrolithaceae

Kallymeniaceae

Lemaneaceae

Liagoraceae

Lithophyllaceae

Lithothamniaceae

Lomentariaceae

Mesophyllaceae

Nemastomataceae

Peyssonneliaceae

Phyllophoraceae

Plocamiaceae

Porolithaceae

Rhizophyllidaceae

Rhodogorgonaceae

Rhodomelaceae

Rhodymeniaceae

Schizymeniaceae

Scinaiaceae

Sebdeniaceae

Solieriaceae

Spongitaceae

Sporolithaceae

Spyridiaceae

Stylonemataceae

Wrangeliaceae