Name: Epiphytaceae corrig. Kordé 1959

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: E.pi.phy.ta’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Epiphytaceae, the Epiphyton family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: e-pi-p^hy-TA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Epiphyton Bornemann 1887

Valid publication: Kordé KB. The morphology and systematic position of representatives of the genus Epiphyton. Doklady of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Earth Sciences Sections 1959; 126:603-606.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Epiphytonaceae Kordé 1959	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Korde (1973) assigned this family to the order Epiphytales Korde 1973. Publication: Korde KB. Vodorosli kembrija [Cambrian Algae]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 1973; 139:1-349.
  • 🧕 Molinari and Guiry (2021) assigned this family to the class Cyanophyceae Hauck 1885. Publication: Molinari EA, Guiry MD. [Title pending]. Notulae algarum 2021; 183:2. 🇵🇪
  • 🧒 Korde (1959) assigned the genus Chabakovia Vologdin 1939 to this family. Publication: Kordé KB. The morphology and systematic position of representatives of the genus Epiphyton. Doklady of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Earth Sciences Sections 1959; 126:603-606.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Epiphyfaceae".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Epiphyton Bornemann 1887	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Filaria Korde 1973	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Kosvophyton Korde 1973	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Ludlovia Korde 1973	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Palaeoumbellula Molinari and Guiry 2021	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Umbellula Korde 1973	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym

Parent taxon: [Chroococcophyceae, not assigned to order]

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Record number: 39574