Species
Costaria costata (Seersucker kelp)
Costaria costata. Photo: (c) Rebecca Johnson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Kelps are large brown algae seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales. There are about 30 different genera. Despite its appearance, kelp is not a plant since it is not made of more than one clearly differentiated tissue; it is a heterokont.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Chromista (Kelp, diatoms, and allies)
- Phylum: Ochrophyta
- Class: Phaeophyceae (Brown algae)
- Subclass: Fucophycidae
- Order: Laminariales (Kelps)
- Family: Agaraceae
- Genus: Costaria
- Species: Costaria costata (Seersucker kelp)
- Genus: Costaria
- Family: Agaraceae
- Order: Laminariales (Kelps)
- Subclass: Fucophycidae
- Class: Phaeophyceae (Brown algae)
- Phylum: Ochrophyta
- Kingdom: Chromista (Kelp, diatoms, and allies)