Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
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Vaucheria dichotoma Mart.

  • 1. Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK

Description

Conferva dichotoma Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1165. 1753.

"Habitat in Angliae fossis pratorum." RCN: 8382.

Lectotype (Christensen, Seaweeds Brit. Isles 4: 15. 1987): [icon] " Conferva dichotoma, setis porcinis similis " in Dillenius, Hist. Musc.: 17, t. 3, f. 9. 1741. - Voucher: Herb. Dillenius (OXF).

Current name: Vaucheria dichotoma (L.) Mart. (Vaucheriaceae).

Note: See Christensen (in Brit. Phycol. Bull. 3: 465. 1968), who discussed Dillenius’ description, figures and voucher material in OXF (the latter reproduced as f. 5, 6), stating (p. 463) that the Dillenian material was the type. This, however, was not seen by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name. Christensen (in Brit. Phycol. J. 21: 275. 1986) subsequently treated Linnaeus’ description as the type but this is contrary to Art. 8.1.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part C), pp. 370-473 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 435, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
OXF
Family
Vaucheriaceae
Genus
Vaucheria
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Vaucheriales
Phylum
Xanthophyta
Scientific name authorship
Mart.
Species
dichotoma
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Vaucheria dichotoma (Linnaeus, 1753) sec. Jarvis, 2007