Hooker, J.D. (1847), Algae. Flora Antarctica: 488 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Hab. Hermite Island, Cape Horn, and the Falkland Islands; on rocks.
• Type specimen: [Type category unknown]: Natural History Museum London: [Accession No. unknown]

De Toni, G.B. (1903), Sylloge algarum omnium hucusque cognitarum: 1297 [basionym]

basionym of: Bornetia antarctica (Hook.f. & Harv.) De Toni legitimate

Baldock, R.N. (1976), The Griffithsieae group of the Ceramiaceae (Rhodophyta) and its southern Australian representatives. Australian Journal of Botany 24: - [secondary reference]

Baldock, R.N. (1976), The Griffithsieae group of the Ceramiaceae (Rhodophyta) and its southern Australian representatives. Australian Journal of Botany 24: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Griffithsia teges Harv. legitimate by Hooker, J.D. (1847), Algae. Flora Antarctica: 488

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

• Comment: See Baldock 1976: 534, none of the records for Tasmania or southern Australia are this taxon, although specimens in HO are named G. antarctica.
• AMANI dist.: World: sub-Antarctic Is, New Zealand.

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