''Struveopsis'' is a
genus
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of
green algae
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in the family
Boodleaceae.
The genus was
circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle.
* Circum ...
by
Willem ten Rhijne
Willem ten Rhijne (1647, Deventer – 1 June 1700, Batavia) was a Dutch doctor and botanist
Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plan ...
(Wilhelmus ten Rhyne) and
Harold Ernest Robinson
Harold Ernest Robinson (May 22, 1932 – December 17, 2020) was an American botanist and entomologist.
Career
Robinson's specialty was the sunflower family (Asteraceae) and the bryophytes. He has named or described over 2,800 new species and s ...
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
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.
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
Boodleaceae
Cladophorales genera
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