Bangiaceae | |
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Clymene coleana | |
Scientific classification | |
(unranked): | Archaeplastida |
Division: | Rhodophyta |
Class: | Bangiophyceae |
Order: | Bangiales |
Family: | Bangiaceae Duby, 1830[1] |
Genera[2] | |
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Bangiaceae is a family of red algae in the order Bangiales.[3] It contains laver, used to make laverbread, and various species in the genus of Pyropia are used to make nori.[4]
Bangiaceae currently contains between 20 and 22 accepted genera, with all but one extant.[5]