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A study of the Marine benthic flora of the Gargano promontory has been performed, in order to know the benthic algal communities of this zone. A list of 213 taxa at specific and infraspecif- ic level has been obtained (153 Rhodophyceae, 30 Phaeophyceae and 30 Chiorophyceae). among which 115 of them are new for the Gargano coast and 12 are new for the Adriatic Sea The discovery of propagules-bearing thalli of Alsidium corallinum, of thalli of Antithamnion cruciatum with intercalary spores and of female gametophytic thalli (with gonimoblasts) of Corallophila cinnabarina can be numbered among the most interesting result of this study.