Edayathumangalam Kandaswamy Ganesan (19 August 1938, Edayathumangalam, near Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India – 6 May 2021), Indian phycologist.

IPNI standard form: Ganesan

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 19 taxon names authored by E.K. Ganesan

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Ganesan, E.K. 1966. Studies on the morphology and reproduction of the articulated corallines - I. Phykos 4: 43–60, 30 figs, 1 plate.
• Desikachary, T.V. & Ganesan, E.K. 1967. Notes on Indian red algae IV. Hydrolithon reinboldii (Weber van Bosse et Foslie) Foslie and Hydrolithon iyengarii sp. nov. Phykos 5: 83–90, 13 figs. Reference page. 
• Ganesan, E.K. 1973. A new species of Gelidiocolax Gardner (Choreocolacaceae, Rhodophyta) from the Caribbean Sea. Boletín del Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidad de Oriente 9: 93–102, 18 figs, 1 map, 1 folded synopsis.
• D’Lacoste V, L.G. & Ganesan, E.K. 1987. Notes on Venezuelan freshwater algae I. Nova Hedwigia 45: 263–281.
• Ganesan, E.K. & West, J.A. 2013. Nomenclatural changes for some freshwater red algae from India. Algae. An International Journal of Algal Research 28(1): 45–51. Reference page. 
• Ganesan, E.K., West, J.A., Zuccarello, G.C., Loiseaux de Goër, S. & Rout, J. 2015. Lemanea manipurensis sp. nov. (Batrachospermales), a freshwater red algal species from North-East India. Algae. An International Journal of Algal Research 30(1): 1–13.
• West, J.A., Zuccarello, G.C., Ganesan, E.K. & Loiseaux de Goër, S. 2015. Investigations into Iyengaria, a poorly known genus of the Scytosiphonaceae (Phaeophyceae) and description of a new species Iyengaria quadriseriata. Phykos 45(2): 43–50, 3 figs. : 50 (Corrigendum). Reference page. 

References

• Obituary in Notulae Algarum 194 (23 June 2021). PDF.