Kützing [Kuetzing], F.T. (1849), Species Algarum [i]-vi, [1]-922: 647 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: In Carpacantho oligophyllo parasiticum. Van-Diemens-Land. (v. s.)

Womersley, H.B.S. (1998), The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia. Part IIIC: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Callithamnion acanthocarpum Sond. nom. illeg.

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

• Comment: Athanasiadis (1996) Opera Botanica 128:173 places this name as a heterotypic synonym of Macrothamnion pectenellum Wollaston. Womersley 1998:127 has made this a species of Macrothamnion.

ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Macrothamnion acanthophorum (Kütz.) Womersley legitimate

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