Chalmasia
| Chalmasia | |
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| Chalmasia antillana | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Clade: | Viridiplantae |
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Class: | Ulvophyceae |
| Order: | Dasycladales |
| Family: | Polyphysaceae |
| Genus: | Chalmasia Solms-Laubach, 1895 |
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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.