Name: Leptochaete Borzì ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Lep.to.chae’te. N.L. fem. n. Leptochaete, a thin hair

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Leptochaet-), lep-to-K^HA͡E-te

Type species: Leptochaete crustacea Borzì ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Valid publication: Bornet É, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième série 1886; 3:323-381.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Homoeothrix (Thuret ex Bornet and Flahault 1887) Kirchner 1898

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Homoeothrix (Thuret ex Bornet and Flahault 1887) Kirchner 1898	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), conserved name
    Amphithrix Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    "Leptochaete" Borzì 1882	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Tapinothrix Sauvageau 1892	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Elenkin (1949) assigned this genus to the family Homoeotrichaceae Elenkin 1949. Publication: Elenkin AA. Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh S'yanofiseaye, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Spetsial'naya (sistematicheskaya) chast', vyp. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. (okonchaniye). Izdate'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 1949.
  • 🧕 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the family Homoeotrichaceae Elenkin 1949. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🧕 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned this genus to the subfamily "Homoeotrichoideae". Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Homoeothrix (Thuret ex Bornet and Flahault 1887) Kirchner 1898. Publication: Komárek J, Kalina T. Bemerkungen zur Coenologie und Systematik der Gattung Homoeothrix (Thur. ex Born. et Flah.) Kirchn. Österr. Bot. Z. 1965; 112:424-441.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Leprochaete"; "Leptoohaeta".
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "LPCT" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 13
Total number of child taxa: 13

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Leptochaete amara Richter 1898	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), rejected name	in need of a replacement
    Leptochaete capsosirae Frémy 1930	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), rejected name	in need of a replacement
    Leptochaete crustacea Borzì ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), rejected name	synonym
    Leptochaete fonticola Borzì 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), rejected name	in need of a replacement
    Leptochaete gracilis (Hansgirg 1892) Geitler 1925	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), rejected name	synonym
    Leptochaete hansgirgii Schmidle 1900	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), rejected name	in need of a replacement
    Leptochaete marina Hansgirg 1890	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), rejected name	in need of a replacement
    Leptochaete nidulans Hansgirg 1887	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), rejected name	in need of a replacement
    Leptochaete parasitica Borzì ex Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), rejected name	in need of a replacement
    Leptochaete rivulariarum Lemmermann 1907	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), rejected name	in need of a replacement
    Leptochaete rivularis Hansgirg 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), rejected name	synonym
    Leptochaete stagnalis Hansgirg 1892	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), rejected name	synonym
    Leptochaete tenella Gardner 1927	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), rejected name	in need of a replacement

Parent taxon: Rivulariaceae Rabenhorst ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Assigned by: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.

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