Genus Nostoc

Name: Nostoc Vaucher ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Nos’toc. Anglo-Saxon n. nosthryl, nostril; German neut. n. Nasenloch, nostril; N.L. neut. n. Nostoc, named because of the slimy nature of the colonies (originally Nostoch)

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Nostoc-), NOS-tok

Type species: Nostoc commune Vaucher ex 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

Risk group: 1

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 94
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 104
Total number of child taxa: 123

Parent taxon: Nostocaceae Eichler 1886

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: 6402
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