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Also Known As alga • Phycophyta • algas

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Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Sylvia Earle
Sylvia Earle
American oceanographer and explorer
Hooker, Sir William Jackson
Sir William Jackson Hooker
British botanist
Nathanael Pringsheim.
Nathanael Pringsheim
German botanist
Per Teodor Cleve
Swedish chemist
Gustave-Adolphe Thuret
French botanist

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