Fucodium chondrophyllum (R.Brown ex Turner) J.Agardh 1848

Publication Details
Fucodium chondrophyllum (R.Brown ex Turner) J.Agardh 1848: 203

Published in: Agardh, J.G. (1848). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen Primum. Algas fucoideas complectens. pp. [i-vi], [i]-viii, [1]-363. Lundae [Lund]: C.W.K. Gleerup.

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Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Fucodium is Fucodium nodosum (Linnaeus) J.Agardh.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Xiphophora chondrophylla (R.Brown ex Turner) Montagne ex Harvey.

Source of Synonymy
Harvey, W.H. (1855). Algae. In: The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror, in the years 1839-1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross.... II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part II. Flowerless plants. (Hooker, J.D. Eds), pp. 211-266. London: Reeve.

Basionym
Fucus chondrophyllus R.Brown ex Turner

Type Information
Type locality: "At Port Dalrymple, on the coast of NewHolland. Mr. Brown" [Tasmania]; (Turner 1811-1819: pl. 222) Holotype: BM; (Womersley 1987: 345)

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 16 August 1999 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 27 February 2018

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 27 February 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024

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