Mandyam Osuri Parthasarathy Iyengar, Indian phycologist (Madras 15 December 1886 – 10 December 1963)

DESCRIBED ALGAE GENERA (some are posthumous)

Chlorophyta

Characiellopsis 1975

Characiosiphon 1936

Chlamydocystis 1975

Cylindrocapsopsis 1957

Delphinomonas 1976

Dendrocystis 1962 

Ecballocystella 1975

Ecballocystopsis 1933

Fortiellopsis 1976

Fritschiella 1932

Gilbertsmithia 1975

Gloeotilopsis 1956 with Philipose

Heterothrichopsis 1941 with Kanthamma

Hormidiella 1940 with Kantamma

Melomonas 1976

Palmellosphaerium 1971

Pyramidococcus 1976

Stylosphaeridiella 1975

Ulotrichella 1975

Others

Cladospongia 1940 with Ramanathan (Protozoa)

Mastigocladopsis 1946 with Desikachary (Cyanophyceae)

Triplastrum 1942 with Ramanathan (Charophyta)

HONORS

Iyengarina Subramanian 1958 (Fungi)

Iyengariella Desikachary 1953 (Cyanophyceae)

Iyengaria Boergensen 1939 (Phaeophyceae)

Iyengariomonas Desikachary 1965 (Chlorophyta)