Furcellaria is a genus of red algae. It is a monotypic genus, the only species being Furcellaria lumbricalis, which has commercial importance as a raw material for carrageenan production. It is mainly harvested from the waters of Denmark and Canada.
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Furcellaria is a genus of red algae. It is a monotypic genus, the only species being Furcellaria lumbricalis, which has commercial importance as a raw material for carrageenan production. It is mainly harvested from the waters of Denmark and Canada.
It grows on submerged rocks to a depth of about , but it can also grow in large floating mats, which are easier to harvest.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).