Marvania is a genus of green algae in the family Chlorellaceae.See the NCBI webpage on Marvania. Data extracted from the
The genus name of Marvania is in honour of Petr Marvan (1929–2022), who was a Czech botanist (algology, mycology and lichenology), and hydrobiologist who worked at the Water Research Institute.
The genus was circumscribed by František Hindák in Arch. Hydrobiol. Suppl. vol.49 on page 268 in 1976.
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