''Gomontia'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
green algae
The green algae (singular: green alga) are a group consisting of the Prasinodermophyta and its unnamed sister which contains the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/Streptophyta. The land plants (Embryophytes) have emerged deep in the Charophyte alga as ...
, in the family
Gomontiaceae
Gomontiaceae is a family of green algae in the order Ulotrichales
Ulotrichales is an order of green algae in the class Ulvophyceae.See the NCBIbr>webpage on Ulotrichales Data extracted from the
Genera unplaced to family (''incertae sedis'' ...
.
The genus name of ''Gomontia'' is in honour of
Maurice-Augustin Gomont Maurice-Augustin Gomont (born 1839, in Rouen - died 1909, in Rouen) was a French phycologist.
Works
* Gomont, M (1892). "Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées). Deuxième partie. - Lyngbyées". Annales des Sciences Naturelles ...
(1839 - 1909), who was a French
phycologist.
The genus was
circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
by
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (September 2, 1828, Guérigny – December 18, 1911, Paris) was a French botanist.
Life
Bornet studied medicine in Paris, and in 1886 became a member of the French Académie des sciences. With Gustave Thuret, he ...
and
Charles Henri Marie Flahault in J. Bot. (Morot) vol.2 on page 164 in 1888.
References
External links
Ulvophyceae genera
Ulotrichales
Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet
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