The following two taxa apparently lie within the circumscription of Gracilaria edulis but have not yet been transferred or reduced to synonymy:
Sphaerococcus lemania Kützing, 1868: 26, pl. 75: figs. a–c (type locality: New Caledonia).—G. Martens, 1871b: 468.— Theobald, 1883: 29.
Gracilaria lichenoides Greville forma lemania (Kützing) V. May, 1948: 32–34.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Burma.