Heimansia | |
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Scientific classification | |
(unranked): | Viridiplantae |
(unranked): | Charophyta |
Class: | Zygnematophyceae |
Order: | Desmidiales |
Family: | Desmidiaceae |
Genus: | Heimansia |
Species | |
Heimansia is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Desmidiaceae. [1]
The genus name of Heimansia is in honour of Jacobus Heimans (1889-1978), who was a Dutch botanist (Bryology and Algology) and was Curator of the Herbarium at the University of Amsterdam. [2]
The genus was circumscribed by Peter F. M. Coesel in Crypt. Algol. vol.14 on page 107 in 1993.
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