Marvania

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

Marvania
Marvania coccoides
Scientific classification
(unranked):	Viridiplantae
Division:	Chlorophyta
Class:	Trebouxiophyceae
Order:	Chlorellales
Family:	Chlorellaceae
Genus:	Marvania F.Hindák
Species
Marvania geminata Marvania coccoides Marvania sp. JL 11-11

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

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.