Struveopsis Explained

Struveopsis is a genus of green algae in the family Boodleaceae.

The genus was circumscribed by Willem ten Rhijne (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 and botanist. He was an apothecary in his hometown of Dresden.^[1]

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen . Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2022 . 978-3-946292-41-8 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2022 . 246307410 . January 27, 2022.