| Name | Tolypothrix Kützing ex Bornet & Flahault |
| Authorship | Kützing ex Bornet & Flahault |
| Rank | Genus |
| Placed in | Tolypothrichaceae |
| Contains | Tolypothrix brebissonii Kützing Tolypothrix distorta (Müll.) Kützing Tolypothrix epilithica (Ercegovic) Geitler Tolypothrix flaccida Kützing Tolypothrix glacialis Dickie Tolypothrix lanata Wartmann ex Bornet & Flahault Tolypothrix limbata Thuret ex Bornet & Flahault Tolypothrix pygmaea Kützing Tolypothrix sp. Tolypothrix sp. Kützing ex Bornet & Flahault Tolypothrix tenuis Kützing ex Bornet & Flahault Tolypothrix willei Setchell & N. L. Gardner |
| Remarks | Lectotype: T. distorta Kützing ex Bornet & Flahault (vide L. Geitler in A. Engler et K. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2. 1b: 153. 1942) |
| Citation | 1886 Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. ser. 7, 5: 83, 118 |