Byssus cryptarum Linnaeus 1753
Publication Details
Byssus cryptarum Linnaeus 1753: 1168
Published in: Linnaeus, C. (1753). Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. Vol. 2 pp. [i], 561-1200, [1-30, index], [i, err.]. Holmiae [Stockholm]: Impensis Laurentii Salvii.
Publication date: 1 May 1753
Original description: 
Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Byssus is Byssus jolithus Linnaeus.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Trentepohlia aurea (Linnaeus) C.Martius.
Source of Synonymy
Spencer, M.A., Irvine, L.M. & Jarvis, C.E. (2009). Typification of Linnaean names relevant to algal nomenclature. Taxon 58(1): 237-260.
Type Information
Type locality: "Habitat in spelunca rupestri Medelpadiae [middle Sweden]"; (Linnaeus 1753: 1158)
Created: 22 May 2002 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 23 January 2017
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Taxonomic note
Ross & Irvine (1967) note: "In Linnaeus's Herbarium there is a specimen [no. 1278. 5] bearing the Flora Lapponnica number "527". The sheet also bears the number "5", which corresponds
to the number given to B. cryptarum in the Species Plantarum: this number was not
noticed by Savage (Cat. Linn. Herb. p. 203. 1945) because it is on a small sheet
which has been turned sideways. Alston (in Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 168: 103. 1957)
comments on the small size of the sheets in the main Flora Lapponica Herbarium
in Paris, which includes no cryptogams. This specimen is the appropriate choice
as lectotype of the species and has been identified by the senior author as Trentepohlia
aurea (L.) Mart. - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 23 January 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 June 2025
