Fucus lucidus R. Brown ex Turner, 1811–1819: 98–99, pl. 238 (type locality: southern Australia).
Gelidium lucidum (R. Brown ex Turner) Sonder, 1848 [1846–1848]: 174–175.—Kützing, 1849: 763.
Pterocladia lucida (R. Brown ex Turner) J. Agardh, 1851 [1851–1863]: 483–484.—Harvey, 1855b: 551.— Harvey, 1863: xxxv, pl. CCXLVIII.— J. Agardh, 1876: 545–546.— Sonder, 1880: 26.— G. Murray, 1887: 28.— De Toni, 1897: 162.— Lucas, 1909: 23.— Weber-van Bosse, 1921: 227–228.— Wood, 1945: 264.— Lucas & Perrin, 1947: 144–145, fig. 19.— V. May, 1965: 371.— S. Dixit, 1970: 117.— Desikachary, V. Krishnamurthy, & M. Balakrishnan, 1990: 200.— Huisman & Walker, 1990: 414.— Womersley & Guiry, 1994: 137–139.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia, Indonesia (Java), Sri Lanka.