''Apjohnia'' is a
genus 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
Siphonocladaceae
Siphonocladaceae is a family of green algae, in the order Cladophorales.See the NCBI
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institut ...
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The genus name of ''Apjohnia'' is in honour of Anne Apjohn, the wife of
James Apjohn
James Apjohn (1 September 1796 – 2 June 1886) was the Irish chemist known for the discovery of new minerals.
Life
James Apjohn (1796-1886) was a renowned and respected chemist and physicist who lived and worked in Dublin during the 1800s. ...
(1796–1886), the Irish chemist.
Species
As accepted by
WoRMS;
* ''
Apjohnia laetevirens''
* ''
Apjohnia scoparia''
Former species;
* ''A. rugulosa'' now accepted as synonym of ''
Cladophora prolifera
''Cladophora'' is a genus of reticulated Hypha, filamentous Ulvophyceae (green algae). The genus ''Cladophora'' contains many species that are very hard to tell apart and classify, mainly because of the great variation in their appearances, whi ...
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* ''A. tropica'' accepted as synonym of ''
Siphonocladus tropicus
''Siphonocladus'' is a small genus of green algae in the family Siphonocladaceae. The algal body (thallus
Thallus (plural: thalli), from Latinized Greek (), meaning "a green shoot" or "twig", is the vegetative tissue of some organisms in di ...
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References
External links
Cladophorales genera
Siphonocladaceae
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