Musaefolia Stackhouse, 1809, nom. rejic.
Holotype species: Musaefolia esculenta (Linnaeus) Stackhouse
Publication details: Stackhouse, 1809: 53
Currently accepted name for the type species: Alaria esculenta (Linnaeus) Greville
Original publication and holotype designation: 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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Taxonomic status: This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Alaria.
Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.
Nomenclatural note
This name is credited to Stackhouse (Stackhouse 1809) but the orthography used by Stackhouse was "Musaefolia". Treated here as an orthographic variant. Alaria Greville, 1830 is a conserved name over Musaefolia Stackhouse, 1809. - (18 February 2025) - M.D. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 18 February 2025. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 May 2025
