Ascophyllum nodosum
Ascophyllum nodosum is a large, common cold water seaweed or brown alga (Phaeophyceae) in the family Fucaceae. Its common names include knotted wrack, egg wrack, feamainn bhuí, rockweed, knotted kelp and Norwegian kelp. It grows only in the northern Atlantic Ocean, along the north-western coast of Europe (from the White Sea to Portugal) including east Greenland and the north-eastern coast of North America. Its range further south of these latitudes is limited by warmer ocean waters. It dominates the intertidal zone. Ascophyllum nodosum has been used numerous times in scientific research and ha
Species
egg wrack
SPECIES
- KingdomChromista
- PhylumOchrophyta
- ClassPhaeophyceae
- OrderFucales
- FamilyFucaceae
Habitatmarine
Der Knotentang (Ascophyllum nodosum) ist eine im Nordatlantik verbreitete Art der Braunalgen, der auch in Nordsee und Ostsee vorkommt. Er wird zur Gewinnung von Alginsäure wirtschaftlich genutzt.
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12 sectionsContents
- Scientific name history
- Description
- Reproduction
- Varieties and forms
- Ecology
- Distribution
- Uses
- Toxicological uses
- Chemistry
- Harvesting
- References
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Ascophyllum nodosum is a large, common cold water seaweed or brown alga (Phaeophyceae) in the family Fucaceae. Its common names include knotted wrack, egg wrack, feamainn bhuí, rockweed, knotted kelp and Norwegian kelp. It grows only in the northern Atlantic Ocean, along the north-western coast of Europe (from the White Sea to Portugal) including east Greenland and the north-eastern coast of North America. Its range further south of these latitudes is limited by warmer ocean waters. It dominates the intertidal zone. Ascophyllum nodosum has been used numerous times in scientific research and has even been found to benefit humans through consumption.
== Scientific name history == Ascophyllum nodosum is the only species in the genus Ascophyllum. The original name (basionym) was Fucus nodosus Linnaeus 1753. The species was transferred to the genus Ascophyllum (as Ascophylla) by Stackhouse (Papenfuss 1950), under the name Ascophyllum laevigata (Guiry and Guiry 2020). The combination Ascophyllum nodosum was made by Le Jolis (1863).