Griffithsia

Griffithsia
	« Griffithsia corallina » = - Illustration in Alguier des frères Crouan, Université de Bourgogne, 1852
Scientific classification
(unranked):	Archaeplastida
Division:	Rhodophyta
Class:	Florideophyceae
Order:	Ceramiales
Family:	Wrangeliaceae
Genus:	Griffithsia; C. Agardh, 1817, nom. cons.
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Heterosphondylium Nägeli, 1862; Pandorea J.Agardh, 1876, nom. illeg. (later homonym of Pandorea Spach 1840, Bignoniaceae); Polychroma Bonnemaison, 1822, nom. illeg.;

Griffithsia is a genus of red algae in the family Wrangeliaceae.

Carl Adolph Agardh named Griffithsia in the honour of phycologist Amelia Griffiths (1768–1858).^[2]

Griffithsin is a protein isolated from species of Griffithsia.

Species[]

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^ Agardh, C.A. 1817. Synopsis algarum Scandinaviae, adjecta dispositione universali algarum. pp. [i]–xl, [1]–135. Lundae [Lund]: Ex officina Berlingiana
^ Suzanne Le-May Sheffield. Revealing new worlds: three Victorian women naturalists. Women in science. 3. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-27069-3.

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