Stramenopile
The heterokonts or stramenopiles are a major line of eukaryotes with more than 100,000 known species,[1] most of them diatoms.[2]
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| Pacific rockweed, Fucus distichus, in Olympic National Park | |
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| Phylum: | Heterokontophyta |
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Heterokonts are mostly algae. In one stage of their life cycle they have two unequal flagella. They include both single-celled types and brown algae (seaweeds such as kelp and Sargassum). They are members of the Kingdom Chromalveolata.
Phylogeny
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