Veselá, Veronika;Malavasi, Veronica;Škaloud, Pavel
Prasiola
Sign in to savePrasiola is a genus of macroscopic green algae, found in a variety of habitats ranging from terrestrial, freshwater, to marine. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, ranging from the Arctic to the Antarctic.
Species
カワノリ属
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumChlorophyta
- ClassTrebouxiophyceae
- OrderPrasiolales
- FamilyPrasiolaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 433
- With media
- 234
- Family
- Prasiolaceae
- Collections
- NY, US, MICH, YPM
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada, Norway, Antarctica, Germany, France, New Zealand, Sweden
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Prasiolaceae
- Image
- Prasiola stipitata.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- taxon name
- Prasiola
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Prasiola
- AlgaeBase URL
- www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=29
- taxonomic type
- Prasiola crispa
- taxon common name
- カワノリ属
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~5 min read
Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Description
- Reproduction
- Evolution
- Ecology
- Species
- References
Prasiola is a genus of macroscopic green algae, found in a variety of habitats ranging from terrestrial, freshwater, to marine. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, ranging from the Arctic to the Antarctic.
Plants belonging to the genus Prasiola were first described by John Lightfoot in 1777 in his series Flora Scotica, as the name Ulva crispa. In 1838, Giuseppe Giovanni Antonio Meneghini circumscribed the genus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Prasiola” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.