Byssus botryoides Linnaeus 1753
Publication Details
Byssus botryoides Linnaeus 1753: 1169
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.
Request PDFPublication date: 1 May 1753
Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Byssus is Byssus jolithus Linnaeus.
Status of Name
The taxonomic or nomenclatural status (or both) of this entity is in some way unresolved and requires further investigation.
Type Information
Notes: INA: "Type: Dillenius, Hist. Musc. pl. 1: fig. 5 (1742), voucher at OXF (LT fide S.A. Redhead & T.W. Kuyper in G.A. Laursen et al. (eds.), Arctic and alpine mycology 2: 321. 1987). Epitype: Hampstead Heath, England in Herb. Sherard sheet 1995 at OXF fide Jørgensen et al., Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 115: 270, 371. 1994)."
General Environment
This is a freshwater species.
Created: 12 May 2003 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 23 January 2017
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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 22 November 2024
