Gomontia

Gomontia is a genus of green algae, in the family Gomontiaceae.[1]

Gomontia
Gomontia polyrhiza
Scientific classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Ulvophyceae
Order: Ulotrichales
Family: Gomontiaceae
Genus: Gomontia
Bornet & Flahault, 1888
Type species
Gomontia polyrhiza
(Lagerheim) Bornet & Flahault
Species[1]
  • Gomontia aegagropila
  • Gomontia archiza
  • Gomontia arhiza
  • Gomontia arrhiza
  • Gomontia codiolifera
  • Gomontia lignicola
  • Gomontia polyrhiza
  • Gomontia rupicola

The genus name of Gomontia is in honour of Maurice-Augustin Gomont (1839 - 1909), who was a French phycologist.[2]

The genus was circumscribed by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet and Charles Henri Marie Flahault in J. Bot. (Morot) vol.2 on page 164 in 1888.

References

  1. Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. (2007). "Genus: Gomontia taxonomy browser". AlgaeBase version 4.2 World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 2007-09-25.
  2. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.


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