Marvania

Marvania
	Marvania coccoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Chlorophyta
Class:	Trebouxiophyceae
Order:	Chlorellales
Family:	Chlorellaceae
Genus:	Marvania ; F.Hindák
Species
	Marvania geminata ; Marvania coccoides ; Marvania sp. JL 11-11 ;

Last updated October 16, 2025

Marvania is a genus of green algae in the family Chlorellaceae.^[1]

The genus name of Marvania is in honour of Petr Marvan (1929–2022), who was a Czech botanist (algology, mycology and lichenology), and hydrobiologist who worked at the Water Research Institute.^[2]

The genus was circumscribed by František Hindák in Arch. Hydrobiol. Suppl. vol.49 on page 268 in 1976.

References

↑ See the NCBI webpage on Marvania. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2007-03-19.
↑ 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.

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[1] See the NCBI webpage on Marvania. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2007-03-19.

[2] 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.

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