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

• Cystoseira elegans on www.algaebase.org