Botryoglossum lobatum (Hooker & Harvey) Kützing 1849
Current name:
Pollexfenia lobata (Hooker f. & Harvey) Falkenberg
Harvey, W.H. (1847). Nereis australis, or algae of the southern ocean: being figures and descriptions of marine plants, collected on the shores of the Cape of Good Hope, the extra-tropical Australian colonies, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Antarctic r
Publication Details
Botryoglossum lobatum (Hooker & Harvey) Kützing 1849: 881
Published in: Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species algarum. pp. [i]-vi, [1]-922. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: F.A. Brockhaus.
Request PDFPublication date: 23-24 July 1849
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Botryoglossum is Botryoglossum platycarpum (Turner) Kützing.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Pollexfenia lobata (Hooker f. & Harvey) Falkenberg.
Basionym
Jeannerettia lobata Hooker f. & Harvey
Type Information
Type locality: "At Port Arthur, Tasmania, Dr. Jeannerett. Also collected by the Rev. Mr. Ewing. (v. s. in Herb. T. C. D. com. cl. Hooker!)"; (Harvey 1847: 20) Holotype: Dr Jeannerett; TCD; (Harvey 1847: 20) Notes: Womersley (2003) hae "Type from Port Arthur, Tas. (Jeannerett); holotype in BM." However, Harvey specifies a specimen in TCD so that the BM specimen is actually an isotype.
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), lobed.
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 28 November 2003 by G.M. Guiry.
Last updated: 01 March 2023
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 01 March 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024
