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]

misapplication: Pterocladia pinnata (Huds.) Papenf. legitimate by May, V. (1965), A census and key to the species of Rhodophyceae (red algae) recorded from Australia. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 3: 371

Santelices, B. & Hommersand, M. (1997), Pterocladiella, a new genus in the Gelidiaceae (Gelidiales, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 36: 118 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Fucus capillaceus S.G.Gmel. legitimate

Millar, A.J.K. & Freshwater, D.W. (2005), Morphology and molecular phylogeny of the marine algal order Gelidiales (Rhodophyta) from New South Wales, including Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Australian Systematic Botany 18 (3): - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Fucus capillaceus S.G.Gmel. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Gelidium capillaceum (S.G.Gmel.) Menegh. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Pterocladia capillacea (S.G.Gmel.) Bornet legitimate

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

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

• AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Peronian, Lord Howe Island), Victoria (Flindersian), Tasmania (Flindersian), South Australia (Flindersian), Western Australia (Flindersian, Dampierian), Queensland (Peronian), Norfolk Island. World: widespread temperate and subtropics.

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