Turbinaria ornata is a tropical brown algae of the order Fucales native to coral reef ecosystems of the South Pacific.

[7] Turbinaria ornata has a wide variety of health benefits and is being researched for pharmaceutical purposes because of its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic, antiproliferative, and neuroprotective effects on humans.

Turbinaria ornata has the proper compounds to be used as a potential source for reducing postprandial hyperglycemia in humans making it an alternative therapeutic approach in treating diabetes.

Turbinaria ornata can be grown and used as a natural alternative wastewater treatment that would reduce untreated dangerous chemicals from being dumped into land and water bodies.

Compounds found in T. ornata can also be used to restore land and bodies of water that were previously contaminated by toxic and environmentally destructive chemicals.