Black Algae
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Black algae is the most primitive members of the melanophyta kingdom. As simple, independent algae they are extinct, having been wiped out by a combination of cellulosebanes and disease, however some live on as symbiotes in a variety of other organisms, and they have living multicellular descendants in the form of various black flora.
Anatomy
Behavior
Diet & Energy
Black algae, like all melanophytes, are capable of photosynthesis that can absorb all visible light, using specialized plastid organelles called "Celaenoplasts".
Evolution
Locomotion
Reproduction
Senses
Black Flora have limited senses. All can sense where the light is and grow towards it.
Size
The smallest black flora is Algaaquila which originally started the lineage as a microbe.