Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Subkingdom Biliphyta > Division Rhodophyta > Subdivision Eurhodophytina > Class Florideophyceae > Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae > Order Ceramiales > Family Rhodomelaceae > Tribe Laurencieae

Laurencia J.V.Lamouroux, 1813

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Laurencia brongniartii J.Agardh, 1841
Laurencia chondrioides Børgesen, 1918
Laurencia coronopus J.Agardh, 1852
Laurencia decumbens Kützing, 1863
Laurencia dendroidea J.Agardh, 1852
Laurencia epiphylla F.Boisset & J.C.Lino, 1998
Laurencia fastigiata Montagne, 1846
Laurencia glandulifera (Kützing) Kützing, 1849
Laurencia intricata J.V.Lamouroux, 1813
Laurencia microcladia Kützing, 1865
Laurencia minuta Vandermeulen, Garbary & Guiry, 1990
Laurencia obtusa (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux, 1813
Laurencia oophora Kützing, 1865
Laurencia pinnatifida (Gmelin) Lamouroux
Laurencia pyramidalis Bory de Saint-Vincent ex Kützing, 1849
Laurencia radicans (Kützing) Rabenhorst, 1847
Laurencia tenera C.K.Tseng, 1943
Laurencia viridis Gil-Rodríguez & Haroun, 1992

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ソゾ属

Literature

original description	Lamouroux, J. V. F. (1813). Essai sur les genres de la famille des thalassiophytes non articulées. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle [Paris]. 20: 21-47, 115-139, 267-293.
basis of record	Guiry, M.D. (2001). Macroalgae of Rhodophycota, Phaeophycota, Chlorophycota, and two genera of Xanthophycota, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 20-38
additional source	Coppejans, E.; Kling, R. (1995). Flore algologique des côtes du Nord de la France et de la Belgique [Algal flora of the northern French and the Belgian coast]. Jardin Botanique National de Belgique: Meise, Belgium. ISBN 90-72619-16-1. 454 pp.
additional source	Silva, P. C.; Basson, P. W.; Moe, R. L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany. 79: 1-1259.
additional source	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

Citation

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Laurencia J.V.Lamouroux, 1813. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:143914