Genus Oscillatoria

Name: Oscillatoria Vaucher ex Gomont 1892

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: L. neut. n. oscillum, a swing; N.L. fem. n. Oscillatoria, type genus of the order

Gender: feminine (stem: Oscillatori-)

Type species: Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher ex Gomont 1892

Valid publication: Gomont M. Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées) deuxiéme partie -Lyngbyées. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Série 7 1892; 16:91-264.

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: 29
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 151
Total number of child taxa: 163

Parent taxon: Oscillatoriaceae Engler 1898

Assigned by: Engler A. Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. Vol. 2. Unknown Publisher, Berlin, 1898.

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Record number: 6345
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