Greville, R.K. (1849), Algae orientales:- descriptions of new species belonging to the genus Sargassum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3: 256, pl. X, fig 3-4 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Hab. in mari Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis; Wight.

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]

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

taxonomic synonym of: Sargassum swartzii C.Agardh legitimate

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

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