''Struveopsis'' is a
genus
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of
green algae
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in the family
Boodleaceae
Boodleaceae is a family of green algae in the order Cladophorales
Cladophorales are an order of green algae, in the class Ulvophyceae
The Ulvophyceae or ulvophytes are a class of green algae, distinguished mainly on the basis of ultrastru ...
.
The genus was
circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
by
Willem ten Rhijne
Willem ten Rhijne (1647, Deventer – 1 June 1700, Batavia) was a Dutch doctor and botanist who was employed by the Dutch East India Company in 1673. In summer 1674 he was dispatched to the trading post Dejima in Japan. While giving medical ...
(Wilhelmus ten Rhyne) and
Harold Ernest Robinson in Phytologia vol.17 (7) on pages 467-468 in 1968.
The genus name of ''Struveopsis'' is in honour of Gustav Adolph Struve (1811–1889), who was a German
Apothecary
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and
botanist
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. He was an apothecary in his hometown of
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...
.
Species
* ''
Struveopsis chagoensis''
Rhyne & H.Robinson, 1968
* ''
Struveopsis covalamensis''
(Iyengar) P.C.Silva, 1996
* ''
Struveopsis siamensis''
(Egerod) P.C.Silva, 1996
* ''
Struveopsis sp. SF-7-6-94-1-14''
''Struveopsis robusta''
(Setchell & N.L.Gardner) Rhyne & H.Robinson, 1968 is now a synonym of ''
Phyllodictyon robustum''
(Setchell & N.L.Gardner) Leliaert & Wysor, 2008
References
External links
Boodleaceae
Cladophorales genera
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