Nitophyllum platycarpum (Turner) J.Agardh 1876
Publication Details
Nitophyllum platycarpum (Turner) J.Agardh 1876: 470
Published in: Agardh, J.G. (1876). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen tertium: De Florideis curae posteriores. Epicrisis systematis Floridearum. pp. [ii*-iii*], [i]-[viï], [1]-724. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: apud T.O. Weigel.
Request PDFPublication date: Apr-Aug 1876 [TL2]
Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Nitophyllum is Nitophyllum punctatum (Stackhouse) Greville.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Botryoglossum platycarpum (Turner) Kützing.
Basionym
Fucus platycarpus Turner
Type Information
Type locality: "At the Cape of Good Hope. Mr. Brand, in the Banksian Herbarium." [Cape of Good Hope, South Africa]; (Turner 1809-1811: 24) Holotype: BM?;
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 29 January 1999 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 23 September 2004
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Citing AlgaeBase
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 23 September 2004. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 15 January 2025
