Genus Cylindrospermum

Name: Cylindrospermum Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Cy.lin.dro.sper’mum. L. masc. n. cylindrus, cylinder; Gr. neut. n. sperma, seed; N.L. neut. n. Cylindrospermum, an organism with cylindrical seeds

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Cylindrosperm-), ky-lin-dro-SPER-mum

Type species: Cylindrospermum stagnale Bornet and Flahault 1886

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Bornet É, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (quatrième et dernier fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième Série 1886; 7:177-262.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 50
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 55
Total number of child taxa: 68

Parent taxon: Aphanizomenaceae corrig. Elenkin 1938

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: 6399
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