Name: Desmonema floccosum Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: floc.co’sum. L. neut. adj. floccosum, full of flocs

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … flok-KO-sum, neuter

Valid publication: Bornet É, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (Troisième fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième série 1886; 5:51-129.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Coleodesmium floccosum (Bornet and Flahault 1886) Geitler 1942

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Coleodesmium floccosum (Bornet and Flahault 1886) Geitler 1942	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • ❗ Desmonema floccosum is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Desmonema.
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Parent taxon: Desmonema Berkeley and Thwaites ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Assigned by: Bornet É, Flahault C. Revision des Nostocacées hétérocystées contenues dans les principaux herbiers de France (Troisième fragment). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Septième série 1886; 5:51-129.

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Record number: 41831