Butters, F.K. (1911), Notes on the species of Liagora and Galaxaura of the central Pacific. Minnesota Botanical Studies 4 (2): 169, pl 24 figs 8-9 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Hawaii: Laie Point, Koolauloa, Oahu. [Tilden 1005].

Cribb, A.B. (1983), Marine algae of the southern Great Barrier Reef. Part 1. Rhodophyta: 20 [secondary reference]

Huisman, J.M. (2002), The type and Australian species of the red algal genera Liagora and Ganonema (Liagoraceae, Nemaliales). Australian Systematic Botany 15: - [secondary reference]

Huisman, J.M. (2002), The type and Australian species of the red algal genera Liagora and Ganonema (Liagoraceae, Nemaliales). Australian Systematic Botany 15: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Liagora boergesenii Yamada legitimate by Cribb, A.B. (1983), Marine algae of the southern Great Barrier Reef. Part 1. Rhodophyta: 20

Huisman, J.M. & Abbott, I.A. (2003), The Liagoraceae (Nemaliales, Rhodophyta) of the Hawaiian Islands IV: the species of Liagora described by Butters (1911). Cryptogamie - Algologie 24 (4): - [secondary reference]

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

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

• Type specimen: LECTOTYPE: Bishop Museum: MIN369840
• AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Lord Howe Island). World: Hawaii.

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