Chalmasia

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Chalmasia
Chalmasia antillana Solms-Laubach.jpg
Chalmasia antillana
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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.

References

  1. "Chalmasia Solms-Laubach, 1895". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  2. See the NCBI webpage on Chalmasia. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  3. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names](pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN   978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID   246307410 . Retrieved January 27, 2022.