Mertens, F.K. (1819), Memoire sur plusieurs especes de Fucus, nouvelles ou peu connues, observees dans la collection du Museum. Memoires du Museum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle 5: 183-184 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Fragmenta ..... et Labillardiere, in Nova Hollandia oris lecta.
• Type specimen: [Type category unknown]: Herbier Cryptogamie, Paris: [Accession No. unknown]

Agardh, C.A. (1820), Species algarum: 13 [basionym]

basionym of: Sargassum desvauxii (Mert.) C.Agardh legitimate

Agardh, J.G. (1889), Species Sargassorum Australiae descriptae et dispositae. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar 23 (3): - [secondary reference]

Phillips, J.A. & Price, I.R. (1997), A catalogue of Phaeophyta (brown algae) from Queensland, Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 10 (5): - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Sargassum desvauxii (Mert.) C.Agardh legitimate

ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [secondary reference]

• Comment: The ship Recherche made two landfalls in Australia - Esperance, WA and Storm Bay Tasm. (Ducker 1979). Agardh (1848:338) cites the specimen from the west coast.

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