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Family Scytonemaceae
Name: Scytonemaceae Frank 1886
Type genus: Scytonema Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886
Valid publication: Frank AB. Dr. Johannes Leunis Synopsis der Pflanzenkunde. Aufl. 3. Band. 3 Specielle Botanik. Kryptogamen. Hahn'sche Buchhandlung, Hannover, 1886.
Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])
Correct name: Scytonemataceae corrig. Frank 1886
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind "Scytonemaceae" Borzì 1892 homotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling Scytonemataceae corrig. Walton 1931 homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name Scytonematidae Walton 1931 homotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling and illegitimate (ICN [Botanical Code]) Tildeniaceae Kossinskaja 1926 heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name Setchelliellaceae De Toni 1938 heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) Scytonemataceae corrig. Frank 1886 corrected spelling of name, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) Mastigocladopsidaceae Iyengar and Desikachary 1946 heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) Parenchymorphaceae corrig. Tseng and Hua 1984 heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) "Symphyonemataceae" Hoffmann et al. 2005 heterotypic synonym, not validly published Parenchymorphataceae Tseng and Hua 1984 heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code]) "Brachytrichiaceae" Wartenberg 1972 heterotypic synonym, not validly published
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Notes:
- 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Nostocaceae Eichler 1886. Publication: Eichler AW. Syllabus der Vorlesungen über specielle und medicinisch-pharmaceutische Botanik, 4. Aufl. Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin, 1886.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Sccletonemaceae"; "Scitonemaceae"; "Scutonemaceae"; "Scyionemaceae"; "Scytmwmaceae"; "Scytonemtaceae"; "Scytonenmtaceae"; "Scytonmnataceae"; "Seytonemalaceae"; "Soytonemaceae".
Parent taxon: Nostocales corrig. Borzì 1914
Assigned by:
Strunecky O, Ivanova AP, Mares J. An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis. J Phycol 2023; 59:12-51. 
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Record number: 48625
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