Chalmasia | |
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Chalmasia antillana | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Division: | Chlorophyta |
Class: | Ulvophyceae |
Order: | Dasycladales |
Family: | Polyphysaceae |
Genus: | Chalmasia Solms-Laubach, 1895 [1] |
Species | |
Chalmasia is a genus of green algae in the family Polyphysaceae. [2]
The genus name of Chalmasia is in honour of Ernest Charles Philippe Auguste Munier-Chalmas (1843–1903), who was a French geologist. [3]
The genus was circumscribed by Hermann zu Solms-Laubach in Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. ser.2, vol.5 on pages 2, 9, 32 and 34 in 1895.