''Dangemannia'' is a
genus
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of
green algae
The green algae (singular: green alga) are a group consisting of the Prasinodermophyta and its unnamed sister which contains the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/ Streptophyta. The land plants ( Embryophytes) have emerged deep in the Charophyte alg ...
in the family
Oltmannsiellopsidaceae
Oltmannsiellopsidaceae is a family of green algae in the order Oltmannsiellopsidales
Oltmannsiellopsidales is an order of green algae in the class Ulvophyceae.See the NCBI
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.
The genus name of ''Dangemannia'' is in honour of
Pierre Jean Louis Dangeard
Pierre Jean-Louis Dangeard (18 February 1895 in Poitiers, France – 23 August 1970 in Pléneuf-Val-André, France) was a French botanist. He was the son of botanist and mycologist Pierre Augustin Dangeard and brother of geologist and ocea ...
(1895–1970), who was a French botanist and
Peter Kornmann (1907–1993), a German botanist.
The genus was
circumscribed
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Not every po ...
by
Thomas Friedl
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and
Charles J. O'Kelly
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "f ...
in Eur. J. Phycol. Vol.37 on page 382 in 2002.
References
External links
Ulvophyceae genera
Oltmannsiellopsidales
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