Abstract
The fossil species Chara elliptica Nikolskaja (1984: 1092) was established on the gyrogonite remains from the Holocene sediments of Majkara (Kazakhstan, Central Asia). However, according to Art. 53.1 of ICN (McNeill et al., 2012) this name is illegitimate because of the existence of an overlooked earlier homonym, Chara elliptica Fritzsche (1924: 93) which was originally described from the earlier Cretaceous (Campanian) deposits of Tres Cruces and Negra Muerta, Province Jujuy, North Argentina (South America). Due to the creation of the International Fossil Plant Names Index with listing of all fossil plant and algal species, the fact of the homonymy between fossil species was solidly established (IFPNI, 2014-).