Porphyroglossum zollingeri Kützing, 1847b: 775–776 (type locality: Java, Indonesia [southeast Malang province fide Sonder, 1854: 2]).—Kützing, 1849: 794.— J. Agardh, 1851 [1851–1863]: 463.— Sonder, 1854: 2.— G. Martens, 1868: 96–97.— Kützing, 1869: 16–17, pl. 45: figs. a–d.— J. Agardh, 1876: 553.— Möbius, 1893: 137.— De Toni, 1897: 167.— De Wildeman, 1897a: 169.— Schmitz & Hauptfleisch, 1897a: 348.— Mazza, 1919 [1919–1925]: 60–62.— Mazza, 1920 [1919–1925]: 1–3.— Weber-van Bosse, 1921: 226–227, figs. 69–70.— Kylin, 1956: 139.— Fan, 1961: 317, 339, fig. 1e, pl. 33.— Hatta & Prud'homme van Reine, 1991: 371–372, fig. 11, table 4.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia (Java).