Sporochnaceae

Sporochnaceae
Sporochnus pedunculatus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: Sar
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Ochrophyta
Class: Phaeophyceae
Subclass: Fucophycidae
Order: Sporochnales
Sauvageau
Family: Sporochnaceae
Greville
Genera

Austronereia
Bellotia
Carpomitra
Chytraphora
Encyothalia
Lucasia
Nereia
Perisporochnus
Perithalia
Sporochnema
Sporochnus
Tomaculopsis

Sporochnacaeae is the only family in the order Sporochnales in the brown algae (class Phaeophyceae). Member of this family are thread-like algae growing by means of an intercalary row of dome shaped cells at the base of the hairs.