Saccharina Stackhouse, 1809: 53, 65
Lectotype species: Saccharina plana Stackhouse
Currently accepted name for the type species: Saccharina latissima (Linnaeus) C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders
Original publication:Stackhouse, J. (1809). Tentamen marino-cryptogamicum, ordinem novum; in genera et species distributum, in Classe XXIVta Linnaei sistens. Mémoires de la Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou 2: [50]-97.
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Type designated inPapenfuss, G.F. (1950). Review of the genera of algae described by Stackhouse. Hydrobiologia 2: 181-208. Download PDF
Taxonomic status: currently recognized as a distinct genus.
NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
Numbers of names and species: There are 50 species (and infraspecific) names in the database at present, of which 21 have been flagged as currently accepted taxonomically.
Names: ('C' indicates a name that is currently accepted taxonomically; 'S' a homotypic or heterotypic synonym; 'U' indicates a name of uncertain taxonomic status, but which has been subjected to some verification nomenclaturally; 'P' indicates a preliminary AlgaeBase entry that has not been subjected to any kind of verification. For more information on a species click on it to activate a link to the Species database):
Saccharina angustata subsp. siberica (Petrov & Sukhovejeva) Selivanova, Zhigadlova & G.I.Hansen C
Saccharina angustata (Kjellman) C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders C
Saccharina bifida (S.G.Gmelin) Kuntze S
Saccharina bongardiana f. bifurcata (Gunnerus) Selivanova, Zhigadlova & G.I.Hansen C
Saccharina bongardiana f. subsessilis (Areschoug) Selivanova, Zhigadlova & G.I.Hansen C
Saccharina bongardiana f. subsimplex (Setchell & N.L.Gardner) Selivanova, Zhigadlova & G.I.Hansen S
Saccharina bongardiana f. taeniata (Postels & Ruprecht) Selivanova, Zhigadlova & G.I.Hansen C
Saccharina bongardiana (Postels & Ruprecht) Selivanova, Zhigadlova & G.I.Hansen C
Saccharina brevipes (C.Agardh) Kuntze S
Saccharina bullata (Goodenough & Woodward) Stackhouse S
Saccharina caespitosa (J.Agardh) Kuntze S
Saccharina cichorioides f. sikotanensis (Miyabe & Nagai) Selivanova, Zhigadlova & G.I.Hansen C
Saccharina cichorioides f. coriacea (Miyabe) Selivanova, Zhigadlova & G.I.Hansen C
Saccharina cichorioides f. sinuicola (Petrov) Selivanova, Zhigadlova & G.I.Hansen C
Saccharina cichorioides (Miyabe) C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders C
Saccharina cichorioides f. sachalinensis (Miyabe) Selivanova, Zhigadlova & G.I.Hansen C
Saccharina complanata (Setchell & N.L.Gardner) Gabrielson, Lindstrom & O'Kelly C
Saccharina coriacea (Miyabe) C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders S
Saccharina crassifolia (Postels & Ruprecht) Kuntze C
Saccharina debilis (Kützing) Kuntze S
Saccharina dentigera (Kjellman) C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders C
Saccharina diabolica (Miyabe) C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders S
Saccharina digitata (Hudson) Kuntze S
Saccharina fascia (O.F.Müller) Kuntze S
Saccharina groenlandica (Rosenvinge) C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders C
Saccharina gurjanovae (A.D.Zinova) Selivanova, Zhigadlova & G.I.Hansen C
Saccharina gurjanovae f. lanciformis (Petrov) Selivanova, Zhigadlova & G.I.Hansen S
Saccharina gyrata (Kjellman) C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders C
Saccharina himanthophylla (Postels & Ruprecht) Kuntze S
Saccharina japonica (Areschoug) C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders C
Saccharina japonica f. longipes (Miyabe) Selivanova, Zhigadlova & G.I.Hansen C
Saccharina japonica f. diabolica (Miyabe) Selivanova, Zhigadlova & G.I.Hansen C
Saccharina kurilensis C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders C
Saccharina lanciformis (Petrov) N.G.Klockova & Beliyi C
Saccharina latissima (Linnaeus) C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders C
Saccharina longicruris (Bachelot de la Pylaie) Kuntze C
Saccharina longipedalis (Okamura) C.E.Lane, C.Maves, Druehl & G.W.Saunders C
Saccharina longipes (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Kuntze S
Saccharina longissima (Miyabe) C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders C
Saccharina lorea (Bory de Saint-Vincent ex J.Agardh) Kuntze S
Saccharina ochotensis (Miyabe) C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders C
Saccharina pallida (Greville) Kuntze S
Saccharina phyllitis (Stackhouse) Kuntze S
Saccharina plana Stackhouse S - type
Saccharina religiosa (Miyabe) C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders C
Saccharina sculpera (Miyabe) C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders C
Saccharina sessilis (C.Agardh) Kuntze C
Saccharina subsimplex (Setchell & N.L.Gardner) Widdowson, S.C.Lindstrom & P.W.Gabrielson S
Saccharina triplicata (Postels & Ruprecht) Kuntze S
Saccharina yendoana (Miyabe) C.E.Lane, C.Mayes, Druehl & G.W.Saunders C
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Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 June 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:5632
