Womersley, H.B.S. & Guiry, M.D. in Womersley, H.B.S. (1994), Order Gelidiales. The marine benthic flora of southern Australia: 141 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Gelidium rectangulare A.H.S.Lucas legitimate

Santelices, B. (1998), Taxonomic review of the species of Pterocladia (Gelidiales, Rhodophyta). Journal of Applied Phycology 10 (3): - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Gelidium rectangulare A.H.S.Lucas legitimate

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

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

Boo, G.H., Le Gall, L., Miller, K.A., Freshwater, D.W., Wernberg, T., Terada, R., Yoon, K.J.& Boo, S.M (17 May 2016), A novel phylogeny of the Gelidiales (Rhodophyta) based on five genes including the nuclear CesA, with descriptions of Orthogonacladia gen. nov. and Orthogonacladiaceae fam. nov. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 101: 370 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Orthogonacladia rectangularis (A.H.S.Lucas) G.H.Boo & Wernberg legitimate

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G M. (2022), -. Algaebase web site: www.algaebase.org: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Orthogonacladia rectangularis (A.H.S.Lucas) G.H.Boo & Wernberg legitimate

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