Our favorite database is an archive called The Macroalgal Herbarium Portal -which has inspired us to recommend their site, as well as get busy adding a few new words referencing their miraculous data. Stop by our Obscure Vocabulary page to learn more about the grinnellia americana —In botany, a genus of marine algae, of which the Grinnellia americana of the Atlantic coast of the United States is the only species. Its membranaceous fronds are rosy-red; native to Espirito Santo. Featured images are referenced from the Macroalgal Herbarium Portal; Catalog #: 2181400 from the New York Botanical Garden Archives. Taxon: Grinnellia americana (C. Agardh), Family: Delesseriaceae. For additional information on this occurrence, please contact: Barbara Thiers (bthiers@nybg.org)
