Algae Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)

Showing Sargassum distichum
Sargassaceae
Sargassum distichum Sond. , legitimate, scientific
Sonder, O.W. (1845), Nova Algarum genera et species, quas in itinere ad oras occidentales Novae Hollandiae, collegit L. Preiss, Ph.Dr. Botanische Zeitung 3: 51 [tax. nov.]
  • Type locality: No type statement is found in Sonder 1845.
  • Type specimen: HOLOTYPE: Melbourne: 1550992
Womersley, H.B.S. & Scott, L.A. in Womersley, H.B.S. (1987), Subgenus Sargassum. The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part II: - [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Sargassum aemulum Sond. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sargassum cristatum J.Agardh legitimate
  • APC Comment: ABRS (2011) uses this taxon concept.
ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [secondary reference]
  • Comment: Protologue does not include a type statement. Sonder (1848:162) cites " Ad Novae Hollandiae litu occidentale. Herb. Preiss No. 2526." Womersley & Scott consider this to be a holotype. See also Phillips & Price (1997) Australian Systematic Botany 10(5) for an explanation of the QLD specimen.
  • AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Peronian), Western Australia (Flindersian, Houtman Abrolhos), Queensland (Great Barrier Reef).