Lessonia flavicans
| Lessonia flavicans | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | Sar |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Phylum: | Gyrista |
| Subphylum: | Ochrophytina |
| Class: | Phaeophyceae |
| Order: | Laminariales |
| Family: | Lessoniaceae |
| Genus: | Lessonia |
| Species: | L. flavicans
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| Binomial name | |
| Lessonia flavicans Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1825
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Lessonia flavicans is a kelp species native to the shallows of the Falkland Islands in the genus Lessonia. It is the only alga to have the form of a tree, having a stem up to eight inches (twenty cm) thick and up to ten feet (three meters) tall, topped by dichotomous clusters of flaccid fronds each up to three feet long, and bringing the total height to thirteen feet (four meters).[1][2]
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