Greville, R.K. (1849), Algae orientales:- descriptions of new species belonging to the genus Sargassum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3: 216-217, pl. IX: upper figs. 1-5 [tax. nov.]

Sonder, O.W. (1871), Die Algen des tropischen Australiens. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften 5: 42 [secondary reference]

Millar, A.J.K. & Kraft, G.T. (1994), Catalogue of marine brown algae (Phaeophyta) of New South Wales, including Lord Howe Island, south-western Pacific. Australian Systematic Botany 7: - [secondary reference]

Millar, A.J.K. & Kraft, G.T. (1994), Catalogue of marine brown algae (Phaeophyta) of New South Wales, including Lord Howe Island, south-western Pacific. Australian Systematic Botany 7: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Sargassum lophocarpum J.Agardh legitimate by Sonder, O.W. (1871), Die Algen des tropischen Australiens. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften 5: 42

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

• Comment: S. obovatum Grev. Is a later homonym of S. obovatum Harv.

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