Dilsea carnosa
Encyclopedia
Dilsea carnosa, commonly known as the poor man's weather glass or the sea belt, is a species of red algae
Red algae
The red algae are one of the oldest groups of eukaryotic algae, and also one of the largest, with about 5,000–6,000 species  of mostly multicellular, marine algae, including many notable seaweeds...

 in the Dumontiaceae family of the order Gigartinales.

Taxonomy

The species was first described scientifically by Schmidel in 1794, under the name Fucus carnosus. The German botanist Otto Kuntze
Otto Kuntze
Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze was a German botanist.-Biography:Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig.An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and...

 transferred the species to Dilsea in 1898.
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