Algae Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)

Showing Sporochnus radiciformis
Sporochnaceae
Sporochnus radiciformis (Turner) C.Agardh , legitimate, scientific
Agardh, C.A. (1817), Synopsis algarum Scandinaviae: xii [comb. nov.]
basionym: Fucus radiciformis Turner legitimate
Harvey, W.H. (1844), Algae of Tasmania. London Journal of Botany 3: 453 [secondary reference]
Agardh, J.G. (1848), Species genera et ordines algarum: - [secondary reference]
Agardh, J.G. (1848), Species genera et ordines algarum: - [misapplied]
misapplied to: Sporochnus comosus C.Agardh legitimate by Harvey, W.H. (1844), Algae of Tasmania. London Journal of Botany 3: 453
Womersley, H.B.S. (1987), The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part II: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Fucus radiciformis Turner legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sporochnus sphaerocephalus Kütz. legitimate
  • APC Comment: ABRS (2011) uses this taxon concept.
ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [secondary reference]
  • Comment: Agardh lists Harvey's specimens from Tasmania as S. herculeus = S. comosus.
  • AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Peronian), Victoria (Flindersian), Tasmania (Flindersian), South Australia (Flindersian), Western Australia (Flindersian, Dampierian).