Sporochnus elsieae

{{Short description|Species of alga}}

{{Orphan|date=August 2024}}

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| image = Sporochnus elsieae Lindauer (AM AK284572-2).jpg

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Type specimen

| genus = Sporochnus

| species = elsieae

| authority = Lindauer, 1960

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Sporochnus elsieae is a marine brown algal species in the family Sporochnaceae, endemic to New Zealand.{{cite journal|author=Lindauer, V.W.|date=1960|title= New species of Phaeophyceae from New Zealand|journal= Revue Algologique|volume= 5|pages= 161–172|url=https://bibliotheques.mnhn.fr/EXPLOITATION/infodoc/digitalCollections/viewerpopup.aspx?seid=MNHN_REALG_1960_T005_N003}}{{cite web|author= Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M|date= 2020|title=Sporochnus elsieae Lindauer 1960|website= AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway|url=https://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=11891|access-date= 26 July 2020}} It was first described in 1960 by Victor Lindauer who gave it the specific epithet, elsieae, in honour of his wife, Elsie.

Lindauer comments that its "most remarkable feature is the series of bull-rush like receptacles along the axes of the branchlets".