Fucus floresius Clemente y Rubio, 1807: 312 (type locality: Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz, Spain).
Halymenia floresia (Clemente y Rubio) C. Agardh, 1817: XIX.—J. Agardh, 1876: 138.— G. Murray, 1887: 23.— Iyengar, 1927: 188.— Børgesen, 1937a: 47.— Chacko, Mahadevan, & R. Ganesan, 1955: 12.— M. Balakrishnan, 1961a: 86–88.— M. Balakrishnan, 1961c: 192–197, figs. 11–19, pl. VI: fig. 4.— Varma, 1961: 224.— S. Dixit, 1966: 14.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 44.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 20.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1970a: 4.— K. Srinivasan, 1973: 2, pl. II.— Teo & Wee, 1983: 90, fig. 91.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [30].— Aleem, 1984: 923.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 106–107, fig. 10A.— Islam & Aziz, 1987: 213, pl. III: fig. 20.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1987a: 24.— Desikachary, V. Krishnamurthy, & M. Balakrishnan, 1990: 252–254, fig. 50, pl. XXXVII.— Phang & Wee, 1991: 58.— Kaliaperumal et al., 1992: 13.— Subba Rao et al., 1992: 181, 182.— V. Kumar, 1993a: 139, 140.— V. Kumar, 1993b: 47.— Grzebyk et al., 1994: 55.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 118.— Womersley & J. Lewis, 1994: 189–191.
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