Cystoseira elegans

Cystoseira elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Chromalveolata
Phylum: Heterokontophyta
Class: Phaeophyceae
Order: Fucales
Family: Fucaceae
Genus: Cystoseira
Species: C. elegans
Binomial name
Cystoseira elegans
Sauvageau, 1912

Cystoseira elegans is a brown alga species in the genus Cystoseira endemic to the Mediterranean.

Hydroxylated diterpenoid-hydroquinones can be isolated from C. elegans.[1]

References

  1. Hydroxylated diterpenoid-hydroquinones from cystoseira elegans: significant products or artifacts ? B. Banaigs, C. Francisco, E. Gonzalez, L. Comodier and William Fenical, Tetrahedron Letters, Volume 23, Issue 32, 1982, pages 3271-3272, doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(00)87589-9

External links