Brown alga
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The brown algae are a large group of multicellular algae, including various sorts of seaweed. Their distinctive greenish-brown color comes from the pigment fucoxanthin. Well-known members include kelps and bladder wrack.
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Brown_alga" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_alga, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
