Genus Plectonema

Name: Plectonema Thuret ex Gomont 1892

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Plectonema

Gender: neuter

Type species: Plectonema tomasinianum Thuret 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

Taxonomic status: correct name

Notes:
- Elenkin (1949) assigned this genus to the family "Plectonemataceae". Publication: Elenkin AA. Monographia algarum Cyanophycearum aquidulcium et terrestrium in finibus URSS inventarum. Pars specialis (Syatematica), Fasc. II. III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk. Sumptibus Academiae Scientarum URSS, Mosqua & Leningrad, 1949.
- Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family "Scytonemataceae". Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 7

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Plectonema boryanum Gomont 1899	validly published under the ICN	synonym
Plectonema calothricoides Gomont 1899	validly published under the ICN	correct name
Plectonema nostocorum Bornet ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN	synonym
Plectonema radiosum Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN	correct name
Plectonema terebrans Bornet and Flahault ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN	correct name
Plectonema tomasinianum Thuret ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN	correct name
Plectonema wollei Farlow ex Gomont 1892	validly published under the ICN	synonym

Parent taxon: [Oscillatoriaceae]

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