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Genus Leptopogon
Etymology: Lep.to.po’gon. Gr. masc. adj. leptos, fine; Gr. masc. n. pôgôn, beard; N.L. masc. n. Leptopogon, a fine beard
Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Leptopogon-), lep-to-PO-gon
Type species: Leptopogon intricatus Borzì 1917
Valid publication: Borzí A. Conspectus generum Stigonematacearum. Nuovo Notarisia 1907; 18:37-38.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
- 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Stigonemataceae corrig. (Agardh ex Bornet and Flahault 1886) Borzì 1892. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Lepiopogon".
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Leptopogon galilaeus Dor and Baldinger 1994 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Leptopogon intricatus Borzì 1917 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), lectotype correct name
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Parent taxon: Hapalosiphonaceae Elenkin 1916
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: 6484
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