Foslie, M. (1900), New or critical calcareous algae. Det Kongelige Norske Videnskaberne Selskabs Skrifter 1899: 12-Nov [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Cape of Good Hope.
• Type specimen: HOLOTYPE: Trondheim: [Accession No. unknown]

Foslie, M. (1907), Algologiske notiser. IV. Det Kongelige Norske Videnskaberne Selskabs Skrifter 1907 (6): 16 [basionym]

basionym of: Lithothamnion speciosum (Foslie) Foslie legitimate

Woelkerling, W.J. (1993), Type collections of Corallinales (Rhodophyta) in the Foslie Herbarium (TRH). Gunneria 67: - [secondary reference]

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]

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

taxonomic synonym of: Mesophyllum engelhartii (Foslie) W.H.Adey legitimate

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

• Comment: Type is illustrated in Printz (1929) M. Foslie. Contributions to a monograph of the Lithothamnia with 75 plates after the authors death collected and edited by Henrik Printz pl. 8 fig. 2, 3.

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