A Textbook of Algae is designed for students of botany and related fields such as medical botany, pharmacy, agricultural botany and horticulture.

The book is amply illustrated with examples and includes several general topics like structure and reproduction of algae, lifecycles, chemical constituents, ecology of algae, and the economic importance of algae. Coverage is class-wise, including Chlorophyceae, Xanthophyceae, Bacillariphyceae, Phaeophyceae, Rhodophyceae and Myxophyceae.

A glossary of algae terms and life cycles of different algae are included in the appendices.