Anabaina spiroides Klebahn, 1895: 13, footnote (`Anabaena') (type locality: Plöner See, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany).—Biswas, 1943: 112.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Burma or India; exact locality not cited.
Note: Drouet (1978: 52, 88) designated a neotype in BREM and assigned it to Nostoc commune Vaucher.