Definition of Conferva. Meaning of Conferva. Synonyms of Conferva

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Definition of Conferva

Conferva
Conferva Con*fer"va, n.; pl. Conferv[ae]. [L., a kind of water plant. See Comfrey.] (Bot.) Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.

Meaning of Conferva from wikipedia

- Cladophora is a genus of reticulated filamentous green algae in the class Ulvophyceae. They may be referred to as reticulated algae, branching algae, or...
- species is Fragilaria pectinalis Lyngbye from designating a lectotype from Conferva pectinalis O.F.Müller. The taxonomy of the genus is still uncertain. Fragilaria...
- Cladophora vagabunda Conferva expansa Mert. (type of) - Cladophora vagabunda (L.) C.Hoek at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, Netherlands Scientific...
- digitata, Rhodomenia laciniata, Plocamium coccineum, Ptilota plumosa, Conferva rupestrus, Codium tomentosum, Codium adhaerens det Dr Harvey. Because of...
- acknowledged in a number of other works; and had had a species of algae, Conferva brownii (now Aegagropila linnaei) named after him by Lewis Weston Dillwyn...
-  floridula Binomial name Rhodothamniella floridula (Dillwyn) Feldmann Synonyms Conferva floridula Dillwyn Audouinella floridula (Dillwyn) Woelkerling Callithamnion...
- genera Conferva (now not recognized, with its representatives mainly classified under the genus Cladophora) – Conferva gelatinosa or Conferva nodosa (Carl...
- of plates with original titles (and notes) Title page, 1768 edition 6 Conferva 8 Tremella 11 Usnea (beard lichens) 14 Coralloides (cup lichens) 18 Lichenoides...
- Ducluzeau, accepted as Ceramium diaphanum var. elegans (Roth) Roth, 1806 Conferva elegans Roth, 1797, accepted as Ceramium diaphanum var. elegans (Roth)...
- translator. German text W****erfänden lit. "water-threads", glossed as Conferva sp. of algae. pl. hrnce, of hrnec. Subtype of ATU 476 "Coal Turns into...