Lambia | |
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Scientific classification | |
(unranked): | Viridiplantae |
Division: | Chlorophyta |
Class: | Ulvophyceae |
Order: | Bryopsidales |
Family: | Bryopsidaceae |
Genus: | Lambia Delépine, 1967 |
Type species | |
Lambia antarctica (Skottsberg) Delépine, 1967
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Species[1] | |
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Lambia is a genus of green algae in the family Bryopsidaceae.[1]
The genus name of Lambia is in honour of Elke Mackenzie (1911–1990), born as Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, who was a British polar explorer and botanist who specialised in the field of lichenology.[2]
The genus was circumscribed by René Delépine in Compt. Rend. Hebd. Seances Acad. Sci. ser.D, vol.264 on pages 1410 and 1413 in 1967.