Algae Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)

Showing Mesophyllum neglectum
Hapalidiaceae
Mesophyllum neglectum (Foslie) W.H.Adey , legitimate, scientific
Foslie, M. (1900), New or critical calcareous algae. Det Kongelige Norske Videnskaberne Selskabs Skrifter 1899: - [secondary reference]
misapplication: Lithothamnion lichenoides (J.Ellis) Foslie legitimate by Dickie, G. (1876), Notes on algae found at Kerguelen Land by the Rev. A.E. Eaton. Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany 15: 200
Adey, W.H. (1970), A revision of the Foslie herbarium. Det Kongelige Norske Videnskaberne Selskabs Skrifter 1970 (1): 25 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Lithothamnion muelleri f. neglectum Foslie legitimate
Woelkerling, W.J. & Harvey, A.S. (1993), An account of southern Australian species of Mesophyllum (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Australian Systematic Botany 6: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Lithothamnion muelleri f. neglectum Foslie legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Lithothamnion neglectum (Foslie) Foslie legitimate
  • APC Comment: ABRS (2011) uses this taxon concept.
Woelkerling, W.J. & Harvey, A.S. (1993), An account of southern Australian species of Mesophyllum (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Australian Systematic Botany 6: - [misapplied]
misapplied to: Mesophyllum engelhartii (Foslie) W.H.Adey legitimate by Adey, W.H. (1970), A revision of the Foslie herbarium. Det Kongelige Norske Videnskaberne Selskabs Skrifter 1970 (1): 25
ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [secondary reference]
  • Comment: The modern records of this species in Australia have not been confirmed, see Woelkerling & Harvey. The late nineteenth century Engelhart specimen from South Australia named L. muelleri f. neglectum and then L. lemniscatum by Foslie is M. engelhartii.
  • AMANI dist.: South Australia (Flindersian).