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Corallina
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Corallina

Corallina is a genus of red seaweeds with hard, abrasive calcareous skeletons in the family Corallinaceae. They are stiff, branched frond-like protists with articulated stipes. Corallina, like all red algae, are not considered plants under some definitions, but can be considered as belonging to plants in a broad sense.

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10 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Common Coralline

speciesCorallina officinalis

graceful coral seaweed

speciesCorallina vancouveriensis

Common Coralline

speciesCorallina berteroi

Corallina chilensis

speciesCorallina chilensis

Corallina pilulifera

speciesCorallina pilulifera

Corallina hombronii

speciesCorallina hombronii

Corallina aberrans

speciesCorallina aberrans

Corallina bathybentha

speciesCorallina bathybentha

Corallina crassissima

speciesCorallina crassissima

Corallina chamberlainiae

speciesCorallina chamberlainiae

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Where it lives

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Corallina in Elements of Botany

Elements of Botany

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort · 1719 · p.89

Corallina in Books on Marine Fishes

Books on Marine Fishes

Guillaume Rondelet · 1554 · p.666

Corallina in History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds

History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds

Conrad Gessner · 1586 · p.601

Corallina in Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden

Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden

Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.45

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 123631.