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

Marvania
Marvania coccoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Clade: Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Trebouxiophyceae
Order: Chlorellales
Family: Chlorellaceae
Genus: Marvania
F.Hindák
Species

The genus name of Marvania is in honour of Petr Marvan (b.1929), who was a (b.1929) Czech / Czechoslovakian botanist (Algology, Mycology and Lichenology), 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

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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.