Franceia

Franceia is a genus of green algae belonging to the family Oocystaceae.[1]

Franceia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Trebouxiophyceae
Order: Chlorellales
Family: Oocystaceae
Genus: Franceia
Lemmermann

The genus was first described by Ernst Lemmermann in 1898.[1]

The genus name of Franceia is in honour of Raoul Heinrich Francé (1874-1943), who was an Austro-Hungarian botanist, microbiologist as well as a natural and cultural philosopher and popularizer of science.[2]

The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.[3]

Species:

  • Franceia armata
  • Franceia droescheri

References
  1. "Franceia Lemmermann, 1898 :: Algaebase". www.algaebase.org. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  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.
  3. "Franceia Lemmermann, 1898". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
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