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: 179-180 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Patria. Mare Rubrum.

Agardh, C.A. (1820), Species algarum: 18 [basionym]

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

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

Millar, A.J.K. & Kraft, G.T. (1994), Catalogue of marine brown algae (Phaeophyta) of New South Wales, including Lord Howe Island, south-western Pacific. Australian Systematic Botany 7: - [nomenclatural synonym]

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

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

• Comment: Agardh 1848 'Species Genera et Ordines Fucoidearum' p. 305 indicates that he has looked for the Mertens specimen in Paris.

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