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Name: Nostocales Geitler 1925

Category, proposed as: order, ord. nov.

Etymology: Nos.to.ca’les. N.L. fem. pl. n. Nostocales, the Nostoc order

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: nos-to-KA-les, feminine

Type genus: Nostoc Vaucher ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Valid publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Nostocales corrig. Borzì 1914

  • Notes:
    • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Mostocales"; "Nestocales"; "Noatocales"; "Noctocales"; "Nootocales"; "Nosfocales"; "Noslocales"; "Nostecales"; "Nostncales"; "Nostocacales"; "Nostocinales"; "Nostococcales"; "Nostogales"; "Vostocales".
    • 🧍 Later isonym of Nostocales Borzì 1914. Publication: Borzì A. Studi sulle Mixoficee. I. Cenni generali - Systema Myxophycearum. Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano Ser 2 1914; 21:307-360.

Parent taxon: Chroococcophyceae Hollerbach et al. 1953

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Aleksovski B, Krstić S, Guiry MD. The names of phyla and classes of blue-green algae (cyanobacteria, cyanophytes) and a typified name: Cyanobacteriophyta Oren, Mareš et Rippka. Fottea 2025; 25:212-217. 🇮🇪

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