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.
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
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