Nutritional Freshwater Life
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Lemanea mamillosa Kützing 1845 (= Lemanea fucina)
Order: Batrachospermales
Family: Lemaneaceae
Common name: Not available.
Distribution: Cosmopolitan in the
northern hemisphere; Europe: Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Sweden
(AlgaeBase).
Habitat: Streams and rivers.
Description: This edible species largely
resembles L. fluviatilis but has very long
(up to 20 cm) and freely branched thalli
(Kučera and Marvan, 2004).
Lemanea catenata (Kützing) (M.L. Vis & R.G. Sheath)
(= Paralemanea catenata)