Lyngbya epiphytica Hieronymus in Kirchner, 1898: 67 (type locality: near Berlin, Germany).—Newton, 1955a: 102.— Newton, 1955b: 143.— Whitton & Potts, 1979b: 5.— D. Jones, 1986: 28, pl. 4.
Leibleinia epiphytica (Hieronymus) Anagnostidis & Komárek, 1988: 394.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Aldabra Islands, Bahrain, Kuwait.
Note: Drouet (1968: 47, 88) selected a neotype for this species in PH and assigned it to Schizothrix calcicola (C. Agardh) Gomont.