Species Scytonema tolypothrichoides

Name: Scytonema tolypothrichoides Kützing ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: to.ly.po.thri.cho.i’des. N.L. fem. n. Tolypothrix, a cyanobacterial genus; L. adj. suff. -oides, resembling, similar; from Gr. neut. adj. suff. -eides, resembling, similar; from Gr. neut. n. eîdos, that which is seen, form, shape, figure; N.L. neut. adj. tolypothrichoides, resembling Tolypothrix

Pronunciation, gender: … to-ly-po-thri-kho-I-des, 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: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

Parent taxon: Scytonema Agardh 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: 6824
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