Gomontia

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

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

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

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.

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