Dufour, L. (1861), Quadro delle melobesie del mare di Genova. Commentario della Societa Crittogamologica Italiana 1: 39 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Si trova nella scogliera di S, Nazzaro vicino a genova. Non rara.

Woelkerling, W.J., Penrose, D. & Chamberlain, Y.M. (1993), A reassessment of type collections of non-geniculate Corallinaceae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) described by C. Montagne and L. Dufour, and of Melobesia brassca-florida Harvey. Phycologia 32: - [secondary reference]

• Type specimen: LECTOTYPE: Herbier Cryptogamie, Paris: [Accession No. unknown]

Furnari, G., Cormaci, M. & Alongi, G. (1996), Lithophyllum frondosum (Dufour) comb. nov. (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta), the species to which Mediterranean Pseudolithphyllum expansum should be referred. European Journal of Phycology 31: 115 [basionym]

basionym of: Lithophyllum frondosum (Dufour) G.Furnari, Cormaci & Alongi legitimate

Woelkerling, W.J. in Womersley, H.B.S. (ed.) (1996), Lithophylloiodeae. The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia. Part IIIB: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Lithophyllum frondosum (Dufour) G.Furnari, Cormaci & Alongi legitimate

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

• Comment: Type is illustrated on Woelkerling et al. 1993: 328.

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