Womersley, H.B.S. (1955), New marine Chlorophyta from southern Australia. Pacific Science 9: 389-390, fig 4 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Type Locality: Pennington Bay, Kangaroo Island, South Australia (in a shaded, rear pool on a rough reef). Type: AD (No. A 7020, H. B. S. Womersley, January 4, 1948).
• Type specimen: HOLOTYPE: Adelaide: 7020

Ducker, S.C. (1967), The genus Chlorodesmis (Chlorophyta) in the Indo-Pacific region. Nova Hedwigia 13: 170 [basionym]

basionym of: Rhipilia pusilla (Womersley) Ducker legitimate

Womersley, H.B.S. (1984), The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part I: - [secondary reference]

Millar, A.J. & Kraft, G.T. (2001), Monograph of the green macroalgal genus Rhipilia (Udoteaceae, Halimedales), with a description of R. crassa sp. nov. from Australia and the Philippines. Phycologia 40 (1): - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Rhipilia pusilla (Womersley) Ducker legitimate

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

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