Mariprasiola delicata (Setchell & N.L.Gardner) Heesch, Guiry & Rindi, 2025

Heesch, Svenja, Guiry, Michael D. & Rindi, Fabio, 2025, Taxonomic revision of the genus Prasiola Meneghini, 1838 (Prasiolaceae, Trebouxiophyceae) results in the establishment of three new genera, Cryptogamie, Algologie 20 (2), pp. 19-30 : 24

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-algologie2025v46a2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15851015
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scientific name	Mariprasiola delicata (Setchell & N.L.Gardner) Heesch, Guiry & Rindi
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Mariprasiola delicata (Setchell & N.L.Gardner) Heesch, Guiry & Rindi , comb. nov.

Prasiola delicata Setchell & N.L.Gardner , University of California Publications in Botany 7: 291, pl. 22: fig. 3a-f; pl. 25: fig. 1; pl. 24: fig. 8 ( Setchell & Gardner 1920).

TYPE MATERIAL. — N.L. Gardner 3981 ( Setchell & Gardner 1920: 292, but the specimen is “currently missing”, fide Dr Kathy-Ann Miller, UC).

LECTOTYPE (here designated). — Original illustration in Setchell & Gardner (1920: pl. 22: fig. 3e).

TYPE LOCALITY. — “ Sitka, Alaska ” ( United States) ( Setchell & Gardner 1920: 292), growing at or near the upper tide mark on rocky islets.

REMARKS

William Albert Setchell (1864-1943), Professor of Botany at the University of California, Berkeley , and Nathaniel Lionel Gardner (1864-1937), also of the University of California at Berkeley , described many algae from Alaska to the Gulf of California and elsewhere. Their types are generally to be found in the Jepson Herbarium at UC.