Nitophyllum pulchellum Harvey 1855

Current name: Nitophyllum pulchellum Harvey
Cape Peron, Western Australia; scale 1 mmJ.M. Huisman

Publication Details
Nitophyllum pulchellum Harvey 1855: 549

Published in: Harvey, W.H. (1855). Some account of the marine botany of the colony of western Australia. Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 22: 525-566.

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Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Nitophyllum is Nitophyllum punctatum (Stackhouse) Greville.

Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Type Information
Lectotype locality: King George Sound ; (Womersley 2003: 125) Lectotype: Harvey; TCD; Harvey, Trav. Set 60 (Womersley 2003: 125) Notes: Syntypes: King George Sound and Rottnest Island, Western Australia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 462). Isolectotypes Alg. Aust. Exsicc. 295B, in TCD, MEL, 584158, NSW, 8645, 8646 and AD, A18302.

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), beautiful and little (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 04 January 1999 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 17 January 2020

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Taxonomic notes
“The ... description is based on Harvey'’s type specimens from King George Sound, W. Aust. and on AD, A68279, which is probably N. pulchellum. The species is otherwise little known, but in form is similar to Haraldiophyllum nottii from SE Australia, which differs in having entire, straight, margins in contrast to the strongly crispate margins on N. pulchellum. Further collections and study of N. pulchellum are clearly desirable to place it generically. Millar (1990, p. 422) referred N. pulchellum to Myriogrammme, on the basis of a cystocarpic specimen of Wilson in MEL (676687) from Port Phillip Heads, Vic., 10. i. 1894. This specimen, however, has crenulate apices and margins and carposporophytes typical of Platyclinia while slightly different in habit, it is now placed under Platyclinia crenulata Womersley (Womersley, 2003: 125). - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry
According to Womersley (2003: 124), Myriogramme pulchella (Harvey) Millar 1990: 462 [NON cystocarpic Victorian specimens cited by Millar] is a synonym of Nitophyllum pulchellum Harvey. - (23 January 2009) - G.M. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 17 January 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 31 May 2025