Chalmasia

Chalmasia
Chalmasia antillana
Scientific classification
(unranked): Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Ulvophyceae
Order: Dasycladales
Family: Polyphysaceae
Genus: Chalmasia
Solms-Laubach, 1895
Species
  • Chalmasia antillana

Chalmasia is a genus of green algae in the family Polyphysaceae.

The genus name of Chalmasia is in honour of Ernest Charles Philippe Auguste Munier-Chalmas (1843–1903), who was a French geologist.

The genus was circumscribed by Hermann zu Solms-Laubach in Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. ser.2, vol.5 on pages 2, 9, 32 and 34 in 1895.

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