Mertens, F.K. (1819), Memoire sur plusieurs especes de Fucus, nouvelles ou peu connues, observees dans la collection du Museum. Memoires du Museum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle 5: 182, pl. 14 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Patria, cujus non fit mentio, Novae Hollandiae littora esse videntur.
• Type specimen: [Type category unknown]: Herbier Cryptogamie, Paris: [Accession No. unknown]

Agardh, C.A. (1824), Systema algarum: 288 [basionym]

basionym of: Cystoseira platylobium (Mert.) C.Agardh legitimate

Decaisne, J. (1841), Plantes de l'Arabie heureuse. Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle 2: 147 [basionym]

basionym of: Blossevillea platylobium (Mert.) Decne. legitimate

Agardh, J.G. (1848), Species genera et ordines algarum: 245 [basionym]

basionym of: Cystophora platylobium (Mert.) J.Agardh legitimate

Womersley, H.B.S. (1964), The morphology and taxonomy of Cystophora and related genera (Phaeophyta). Australian Journal of Botany 12: - [secondary reference]

Womersley, H.B.S. (1987), The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part II: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cystophora platylobium (Mert.) J.Agardh legitimate

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

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