Actidesmium pulchellum (H.D.Wood) Kuntze 1892

Mucidosphaerium pulchellum (H.C.Wood) C.Bock, Proschold & Krienitz

Current name: Mucidosphaerium pulchellum (H.C.Wood) C.Bock, Proschold & Krienitz
Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA; water garden, 400x, DIC - 12 December 2008. Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net)

Publication Details
Actidesmium pulchellum (H.D.Wood) Kuntze 1892: 394

Published in: Kuntze, O. (1898). Revisio generum plantarum. Pars III (3). pp. 1-576. Leipzig, London, Milano, New York, Paris: Arthur Felix, Dulau & Co., U. Hoepli, Gust. A. Schechert, Charles Klincksierck.

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Publication date: 28 Sep 1898

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Actidesmium is Actidesmium hookeri Renisch.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Mucidosphaerium pulchellum (H.C.Wood) C.Bock, Proschold & Krienitz.

Basionym
Dictyosphaerium pulchellum H.C.Wood

Type Information
Type locality: in stagnis prope Philadelphia [USA]; (Wood 1873: 84) Holotype: tab. 10: 4 in Woods 1872: Material of strain UTEX 731, deposited at the Culture collection of Algae at the Univ. of Texas at Austin (epitype) (Bock et al. 2011: 643) Notes: Epitype designated by Bock et al. (2011: 643).

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), beautiful and little (Stearn 1973).

Created: 13 March 2006 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 16 April 2009

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