Stuckenia Borner 1912 – the correct name for Coleogeton (Potamogetonaceae)

Stuckenia Borner 1912 is the correct generic name for a group of species allied to Potamogeton pectinatus L. (= subgen. Coleogeton), when the group is excluded from Potamogeton as a separate genus. A brief characteristic of the genus including its diagnostic characters is given. Borner's name Stuckenia replaces the generic name Coleogeton used independently by Dostál (an invalidly published generic name in the 1980s) and by Les et Haynes (a validly published generic name in 1996). After Börner, Stuckenia was accepted by Holub in 1984. Until now. Stuckenia was used for three species; nine further combinations are proposed in this paper, six for species, three for nothospecies. A list of names of taxonomically unclear, uncertain and insufficiently known taxa, with notes, is added .