Spongiochrysis

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Spongiochrysis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Ulvophyceae
Order: Cladophorales
Family: Cladophoraceae
Genus: Spongiochrysis
Rindi, J.López-Bautista, A.R.Sherwood & Guiry
Species:
S. hawaiiensis
Binomial name
Spongiochrysis hawaiiensis
Rindi, J.López-Bautista, A.R.Sherwood & Guiry

Spongiochrysis is a genus of green algae in the family Cladophorales. [1] It contains a single species, Spongiochrysis hawaiiensis.

Spongiochrysis hawaiiensis is a terrestrial alga that forms golden-yellow crusts on Casuarina bark. [2]

References

  1. ↑ See the NCBI webpage on Spongiochrysis. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. ↑ Rindi, Fabio; López-Bautista, Juan M.; Sherwood, Alison R.; Guiry, Michael D. (2006). "Morphology and phylogenetic position of Spongiochrysis hawaiiensis gen. et sp. nov., the first known terrestrial member of the order Cladophorales (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta)". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 56 (4): 913–922. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63977-0.


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