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: 189, pl. 15 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: In Museo regio specimina plura ultrapedalia ad Novae Hollandiae oras lecta deprehenduntur.
• Type specimen: [Type category unknown]: Herbier Cryptogamie, Paris: [Accession No. unknown]

Agardh, C.A. (1820), Species algarum: 60 [basionym]

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

Decaisne, J. (1841), Plantes de l'Arabie heureuse. Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle 2: 146 [basionym]

basionym of: Moniliformia nodularia (Mert.) Decne. legitimate

Decaisne, J. (1842), Essais sur une classification des algues et des polypiers calciferes de Lamouroux. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique 17: 331 [basionym]

basionym of: Hormosira nodularia (Mert.) Decne. legitimate

Kützing [Kuetzing], F.T. (1849), Species Algarum [i]-vi, [1]-922: 603 [basionym]

basionym of: Sirophysalis nodularia (Mert.) Kütz. legitimate

Silva, P.C., Basson, P.I. & Moe, R.L. (1996), Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: - [secondary reference]

Huisman, J.M. (2000), Marine Plants of Australia: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Hormophysa cuneiformis (J.F.Gmel.) P.C.Silva legitimate

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

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