Derbesia is a genus of green algae in the family Derbesiaceae.[1] The plant was originally known from different names applied to its larger sporophyte, Derbesia, and its less conspicuous gametophyte, Halicystis.[2] Derbesia was successfully cultured in the laboratories of German phycologist Peter Kornmann to learn that both it and the plant Halicystis were different parts of the life cycle of the same organism.[3]
| Derbesia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Clade: | Viridiplantae |
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Class: | UTC clade |
| Order: | Bryopsidales |
| Family: | Derbesiaceae |
| Genus: | Derbesia Solier, 1846 |
| Type species | |
| Derbesia marina (Lyngbye) Solier, 1846
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| Species[1] | |
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About 20, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Halicystis | |
The genus name of Derbesia is in honour of Auguste Alphonse Derbès (1818–1894), French naturalist, zoologist and botanist, Professor of Natural Sciences at the University of Aix-Marseille.[4]
List of species
edit- Derbesia attenuata
- Derbesia boergesenii
- Derbesia corallicola
- Derbesia fastigiata
- Derbesia furcata
- Derbesia hollenbergii
- Derbesia indica
- Derbesia longifructa
- Derbesia marina
- Derbesia minima
- Derbesia novae-zelandiae
- Derbesia osterhoutii
- Derbesia pacifica
- Derbesia padinae
- Derbesia prolifica
- Derbesia rhizophora
- Derbesia sirenarum
- Derbesia tenuissima
- Derbesia turbinata
- Derbesia vaucheriaeformis
References
edit- ^ a b Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. (2007). "Genus: Derbesia taxonomy browser". AlgaeBase version 4.2 World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 2007-09-24.
- ^ Hoek, C. van den; Mann, D. G.; Jahns, Hans Martin (1995). Algae: An Introduction to Phycology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 429. ISBN 978-0-521-31687-3.
- ^ Langstroth, Lovell; Newberry, Andrew Todd; Langstroth, Libby; Newberry, Todd (2000). A Living Bay: The Underwater World of Monterey Bay. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press/Monterey Bay Aquarium. pp. 35. ISBN 978-0-520-22149-9.
- ^ 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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