Harvey, W.H. (1854), Short characters of three new algae from the shores of Ceylon. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 6: 144-145; tab V [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Hab. Growing on corallines and various small algae in rock-pools, on a coral bank, in 2 or 3 feet water, three miles west of Belligam, south coast of Ceylon; November, 1853.- W.H.H.

Millar, A.J.K. & Kraft, G.T. (1993), Catalogue of marine and freshwater red algae (Rhodophyta) of New South Wales, including Lord Howe Island, South-western Pacific. Australian Systematic Botany 6: - [secondary reference]

• APC Comment: ABRS (2011) uses this taxon concept.

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

• Comment: The taxon is only possibly present in GBR see Price & Scott (1992) Turf Algal Flora GBR p. 149.
• AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Lord Howe Island), Queensland (Great Barrier Reef). World: Papua New Guinea.

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