Griffithsia

Griffithsia
« Griffithsia corallina » = Griffithsia corallinoides - Illustration in Alguier des frères Crouan, Université de Bourgogne, 1852
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Clade: Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Order: Ceramiales
Family: Wrangeliaceae
Genus: Griffithsia
C. Agardh, 1817, nom. cons.[1]
Species

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Synonyms
  • Heterosphondylium Nägeli, 1862
  • Pandorea J.Agardh, 1876, nom. illeg. (later homonym of Pandorea Spach 1840, Bignoniaceae)
  • Polychroma Bonnemaison, 1822, nom. illeg.

Griffithsia is a genus of red algae in the family Wrangeliaceae.

Carl Adolph Agardh named Griffithsia in the honour of phycologist Amelia Griffiths (1768–1858).[2]

Griffithsin is a protein isolated from species of Griffithsia.

  1. ^ Agardh, C.A. 1817. Synopsis algarum Scandinaviae, adjecta dispositione universali algarum. pp. [i]–xl, [1]–135. Lundae [Lund]: Ex officina Berlingiana
  2. ^ Suzanne Le-May Sheffield. Revealing new worlds: three Victorian women naturalists. Women in science. Vol. 3. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-27069-3.