| Scytothamnus australis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Phylum: | Gyrista |
| Subphylum: | Ochrophytina |
| Class: | Phaeophyceae |
| Order: | Scytothamnales |
| Family: | Splachnidiaceae |
| Genus: | Scytothamnus |
| Species: | S. australis
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| Binomial name | |
| Scytothamnus australis (J.Agardh) J.D.Hooker & Harvey, 1845
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Scytothamnus australis is a brown alga species in the genus Scytothamnus found in New Zealand. It is a sulphated polysaccharide[1] and the type species in the genus.
The species contains the phlorotannins trifucol, tetrafucol A, tetrafucol B, cis-pentafucol A, diphlorethol A and triphlorethol A.[2]
- ^ Clayton, Margaret N. (1986). "Culture studies on the life history of Scytothamnus australis and Scytothamnus fasciculatus (Phaeophyta) with electron microscope observations on sporogenesis and gametogenesis". British Phycological Journal. 21 (4): 371–386. doi:10.1080/00071618600650441.
- ^ Fucols and Phlorethols from the Brown Alga Scytothamnus australis Hook. et Harv. (Chnoosporaceae). Glombitza K.W and Pauli K, Botanica Marina, 30 April 2003, volume 46, issue 3, pages 315-320, doi:10.1515/BOT.2003.028