Conferva capillaris Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1166. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae lacubus, stagnis, vadis, fossis." RCN: 8388.

Lectotype (Irvine in Spencer & al. in Taxon, in press): [icon] " Conferva filamentis longis geniculatis simplicibus " in Dillenius, Hist. Musc.: 25, t. 5, f. 25B. 1741. - Voucher: Herb. Dillenius (OXF) .

Current name: Cladophora glomerata (L.) Kuetz . ( Cladophoraceae).

Note: See comments by Papenfuss (in J. S. African Bot. 17: 178. 1952), van den Hoek (Revis. Eur. Sp. Cladophora: 179. 1963), Blair (in Rhodora 85: 180. 1983) and Silva & al. (in Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 79: 936. 1996) on the varied application of this name.