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Name: Epiphytonaceae Kordé 1959
Category: Family
Proposed as: fam. nov.
Gender: 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: inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])
Taxonomic status: misspelling
Correct name: Epiphytaceae corrig. Kordé 1959
Parent taxon: [Chroococcophyceae, not assigned to order]
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Record number: 39575