Algae Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)

Showing Cladostephus spongiosus
Cladostephaceae
Cladostephus spongiosus (Huds.) C.Agardh , legitimate, scientific
Agardh, C.A. (1817), Synopsis algarum Scandinaviae: xxvi [comb. nov.]
basionym: Conferva spongiosa Huds. legitimate
Womersley, H.B.S. (1987), The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part II: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Conferva spongiosa Huds. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Conferva verticillatus Lightf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cladostephus verticillatus (Lightf.) Lyngb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cladostephus australis Kütz. nom. inval., nom. nud.
  • APC Comment: ABRS(2011) uses this taxon concept.
ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [secondary reference]
  • Comment: Although Prud'homme van Reine 1972 Blumea XX:142 wished to separate C. verticillatus and C. spongiosus as forms of C. spongiosus Womersley does no follow this. Silva et al 1996 Univ Calif Public Bot. 79:574 does do so.
  • Type specimen: [Type category unknown]: Natural History Museum London: [Accession No. unknown]
  • AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Peronian), Victoria (Flindersian), Tasmania (Flindersian), South Australia (Flindersian), Western Australia (Flindersian), Queensland (Great Barrier Reef). World: Widespread temperate coasts of N. Atlantic and in the southern hemisphere.