Fucus elminthoides Velley 1792

Nemalion elminthoides (Velley) Batters

Current name: Nemalion elminthoides (Velley) Batters
microscope, TS showing fascicles of coloured meduallary cells; Spain, Galicia, Coruña, Barizo, 2001Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es)

Publication Details
Fucus elminthoides Velley 1792: 255

Published in: Withering, W. (1792). A botanical arrangement of British plants; including the uses of each species, in medicine, diet, rural economy, and the arts. With an easy introduction to the study of botany, &c. &c. Illustrated by copper plates. The Second edition. Including a new set of references to figures, partly by the author, and partly by Jonathan Stokes, M.D. Vol. III.. Vol. 3, part 2 pp. [i-xxiv] 1- 503, pls XIII-XIX. Birmingham: Printed by Swinney & Walker; for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, and J. Robson, New Bond-Street, London; J. Balfour, and G. Elliot, Edinburgh.

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Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Fucus is Fucus vesiculosus Linnaeus.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Nemalion elminthoides (Velley) Batters.

Type Information
Type locality: "Grows in abundance upon the rocks off the Beal, at the extremity of Portland [Dorset, England], at very low water. June. July. ... Major Velley."; (Withering 1792: 255) Lectotype: LIV; (Womersley 1994: 81) Notes: Batters (1902: 59) "e spec. auth. in Herb. Kew.", which could be considered a lectotypification so that the lectotype would be a specimen in BM-K.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 18 October 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 01 February 2017

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 01 February 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 March 2024

 
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