Staurastrum refractum var. minus (Schmidle) Levanets & Janse van Vuuren, 2025

Levanets, Anatoliy & Unit, Sanet Janse van Vuuren, 2025, The correct name for Staurastrum inconspicuum Nordstedt (Staurastrum minutissimum Averswald pro parte) (Desmidiaceae, Zygnematophyceae), Notulae Algarum 360, pp. 1-4 : 2-4

Staurastrum refractum var. minus (Schmidle) Levanets & Janse van Vuuren , comb. nov.

Basionym: Staurastrum inconspicuum var. minus Schmidle Bihang till Kongliga Svenska

Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 24 (Afh. III, 8): 56, pl. II [2]: fig. 35, 1898 (as ‘ Staurastrum

inconspicuum Nordstedt var. minor ’) Lectotype (designated here): [icon!] Schmidle 1898: pl. II [2]: fig. 35. Registration (of name): http://phycobank.org/105154 Registration (of lectotype): http://phycobank.org/105155 Type locality: near Åbyn , Vesterbotten [Västerbotten County], northern Sweden; in a raised moor,

7 July 1891.

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