Platythalia quercifolia (R.Brown ex Turner) Sonder 1848
Current name:
Platythalia quercifolia (R.Brown ex Turner) Sonder
Rottnest Island, Western Australia.John Huisman (j.huisman@murdoch.edu.au)
Publication Details
Platythalia quercifolia (R.Brown ex Turner) Sonder 1848: 51
Published in: Sonder, G. (1845). Nova algarum genera et species, quas in itinere ad oras occidentales Novae Hollandiae, collegit L. Priess, Ph. Dr. Botanische Zeitung 3(4): 49-57.
Type Species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Platythalia.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Fucus quercifolius R.Brown ex Turner
Type Information
Type locality: "On the south coast of New Holland. Mr. Brown." [probably King George Sound, Western Australia]; (Turner 1809-1811: 38) Holotype: BM; (Womersley 1987: 404) Notes: See Womersley (1967: 256).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 27 September 1999 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 17 January 2020
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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 14 October 2024