Registration Id: http://phycobank.org/104095

Event: new name, new nomenclatural type

Homoeocladia equitorquis Lobban, B.Sison & Ashworth in Plants 12(23): 15, fig. 8A-I. 4 Dec 20231,2
Holotype: Palau, Babeldaob Island, Ngiwal State, Lekes mangrove, alt. 0 m, 7°31'52.02"N, 134°37'10.98"E, 7 Jul 2021, K. Ngeraklang PW2021-4-73 Lobban, C.S., Sison, B. & Ashworth, M.P. 2023: The search for species flocks in marine benthic Homoeocladia spp. (Diatomeae: Bacillariales). I. Variations on three themes, seventeen new species. – Plants 12(23): 4073 (1-45). https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12234073: fig. 8A-F
1. Etymology: L. equus (horse) + torquis (collar), compound noun (f.) in apposition, for the shape of the borders around the areolae in the peri-raphe zone., 2. Diagnosis: Differing from congeners in the combination of large, bordered areolae in the peri-raphe zone, without costae on the valve face, areolae occluded at inner opening, 3. Figure 8A-F is from specimen on stub 1573
published in: Lobban, C.S., Sison, B. & Ashworth, M.P. 2023: The search for species flocks in marine benthic Homoeocladia spp. (Diatomeae: Bacillariales). I. Variations on three themes, seventeen new species. – Plants 12(23): 4073 (1-45): 15, fig. 8A-I

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