Name: Wollea Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Wol’le.a. N.L. fem. n. Wollea, named to honor Francis Wolle, American phycologist

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Wolle-), WOL-le-a

Type species: Wollea saccata Bornet and Flahault 1886

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

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Anabaenothrix Randhawa 1936	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Emendations:
  • Singh 1942 Singh RN. Wollea Bharadwajae sp. nov. and its autoecology. Annals of Botany, New Series 1942; 6:593-606.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 5 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this genus to the family Nostocaceae Eichler 1886. Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Nostocaceae Eichler 1886. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kastovsky J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) - state in 2004. Algological Studies 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺
  • 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Nostocaceae Eichler 1886. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335. 🇨🇿
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Vollea"; "Wellea"; "Woilea"; "Wollca".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CCALA: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 8
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 9
Total number of child taxa: 9

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Wollea ambigua (Rao 1937) Singh 1942	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Wollea bharadwajae Singh 1942	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Wollea cylindrica (Randhawa and Ghose 1936) Singh 1942	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Wollea epiphytica (Randhawa and Ghose 1936) Singh 1942	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Wollea lemnae González Guerrero 1948	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Wollea saccata Bornet and Flahault 1886	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Wollea salina Chatchawan et al. 2016	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym
    Wollea udaipurensis Gupta and Kumar 1968	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Wollea vaginicola (Fritsch and Rich 1929) Singh 1942	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Aphanizomenaceae corrig. Elenkin 1938

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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