Rhodophyllis membranacea (Harvey) Hooker f. & Harvey 1855

Current name: Rhodophyllis membranacea (Harvey) Hooker f. & Harvey
Harvey, W.H. (1849). Nereis australis, or algae of the southern ocean: being figures and descriptions of marine plants, collected on the shores of the Cape of Good Hope, the extra-tropical Australian colonies, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Antarctic r

Publication Details
Rhodophyllis membranacea (Harvey) Hooker f. & Harvey 1855: 247, pl. 117

Published in: Hooker, J.D. (1855). 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, Kt., R.N., F.R.S. & L.S., etc. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part 2. Flowerless plants. Published under the authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. pp. 161-378, pls 111-130. London: Lovell Reeve, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.

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Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Rhodophyllis is Rhodophyllis bifida (J.V.Lamouroux) Kützing.

Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Halymenia membranacea Harvey

Type Information
Type locality: "George Town, V. D. L., R. Gunn, Esq., n. 1276." [Georgetown, Tasmania]; (Silva & al. 1996: 286) Lectotype (designated by Womersley 1994: 415): BM; (Womersley 1994: 415) Notes: Tetrasporangial specimens (Gunn 1276); isolectotype in TCD (Womersley 1994: 416, 415).

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), membranous (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 16 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 10 October 2021

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