Womersley, H.B.S. (1967), A critical survey of the marine algae of southern Australia. II. Phaeophyta. Australian Journal of Botany 15: - [secondary reference]

misapplication: Ectocarpus simpliciusculus C.Agardh legitimate by May, V. (1939), A key to the marine algae of New South Wales. Part 2. Melanophyceae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 64: 196-7 misapplication: Ectocarpus confervoides Le Jol. legitimate by May, V. (1939), A key to the marine algae of New South Wales. Part 2. Melanophyceae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 64: 197

Womersley, H.B.S. (1967), A critical survey of the marine algae of southern Australia. II. Phaeophyta. Australian Journal of Botany 15: 73 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Feldmannia mitchelliae (Harv.) Hyung S.Kim legitimate

Silva, P.C., Menez, E.G. & Moe, R.L. (1987), Catalog of the benthic marine algae of the Philippines: 73 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Ectocarpus mitchelliae Harv. legitimate

Millar, A.J.K. & Kraft, G.T. (1994), Catalogue of marine brown algae (Phaeophyta) of New South Wales, including Lord Howe Island, south-western Pacific. Australian Systematic Botany 7: 10 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Ectocarpus siliculosus (Dillwyn) Lyngb. legitimate by May, V. (1939), A key to the marine algae of New South Wales. Part 2. Melanophyceae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 64: 197

Kraft, G.T. (2009), Marine Benthic Algae of Lord Howe Island and the Southern Great Barrier Reef, 2. Brown Algae: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Ectocarpus mitchelliae Harv. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Giffordia mitchelliae (Harv.) Hamel legitimate

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

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

• AMANI dist.: See Feldmannia mitchelliae

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