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Byssus flos-aquae ('Flos aquae') Linnaeus
Sp. Pl.: 1168. 1753. (L)
Type: LINN: Herb. Linn. No. 1278.1 (LT fide F. Drouet & W.A. Daily, Butler Univ. Bot. Stud. 12: 145. 1956)
Type locality: Sweden ("Habitat in Mari & omni aqua")
devalidated by later starting point: cites Byssus farinacea virescens aquae instarsa. Fl. lapp. 532, Fl. suec. 1128.

See Phytoconis natans Bory 1797 (illeg.) (devalidated)
See Conferva flos-aquae (Linnaeus) Roth 1806 (devalidated)
See Oscillatoria flos-aquae (Linnaeus) C. Agardh 1811 (devalidated)
See Nostoc flos-aquae (Linnaeus) Lyngbye 1819 (devalidated)
See Nostoc papyraceum S.F. Gray 1821 (illeg.) (devalidated)
See Oscillaria flos-aquae (Linnaeus) Wallroth 1833 (devalidated)
See Anabaena flos-aquae (Linnaeus) Brébisson 1835 (devalidated)
See Limnanthe linnaei Kützing 1843 (invalid)
See Limnochlide flos-aquae (Linnaeus) Kützing 1843 (T) (devalidated)
See Sphaerozyga flos-aquae (Linnaeus) Endlicher 1843 (devalidated)
See Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (Linnaeus) Ralfs 1850 (devalidated)
See Aphanizomenon flos-aquae Ralfs ex Bornet & Flahault 1886
[for historical account see T. Willen & E. Willen, Arch. Hydrobiol. Suppl. 129 (Algol. Stud. 94): 377-382, 2 figs. (1999); also Spencer et al., Taxon 58: 240. 2009 ]

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