Agardh, J.G. (1848), Species genera et ordines algarum: 304 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Hab. in mari Indico ad Ceylonam (Hb. Agardh!); ad Hong- Hong (Hb. Areschoug); ad Novam Hollandiam (Mus. Paris!); e Torres Strait (Hb. Areschoug!).

Sonder, O.W. (1853), Plantae Muellerianae: Algae. Linnaea 25: 672 [secondary reference]

Grunow, A. (1915), Additamenta ad cognitionem Sargassorum. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gessellschaft in Wien 65: 366 [basionym]

basionym of: Sargassum carpophyllum var. genuina Grunow legitimate

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: 203 [secondary reference]

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

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

misapplied to: Sargassum spinuligerum Sond. legitimate by Sonder, O.W. (1853), Plantae Muellerianae: Algae. Linnaea 25: 672

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: - [secondary reference]

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: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Sargassum flavicans (Mert.) 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: 203

Phillips, J.A. & Price, I.R. (1997), A catalogue of Phaeophyta (brown algae) from Queensland, Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 10 (5): - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Sargassum carpophyllum var. genuina Grunow legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sargassum flavicans var. moretonensis Grunow legitimate

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

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

• Comment: Phillips & Price (1997) indicate the type is from Sri Lanka. Mattio & Payri 2009 J. Phycol 45:1374-1388 indicates this taxon in NSW.
• AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Peronian), Queensland (Dampierian, Great Barrier Reef, Peronian). World: sth Arabia, Bangladesch, India, Sri Lanka,Tanzania, New Caledonia.

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