Sphaerococcus nodifer Hering, 1841: 91 (`nodiferus') (type locality: Natal Bay [Durban], South Africa).
Gigartina nodifera (Hering) Hering in Krauss, 1846: 210.—Kützing, 1849: 750.— J. Agardh, 1851 [1851–1863]: 282.— Barton, 1893: 140.— De Toni, 1897: 228.
Mammillaria nodifera (Hering) Kuntze, 1891: 903.
Prionitis nodifera (Hering) Barton, 1896: 459.—De Toni, 1905: 1591.— Delf & Michell, 1921: 118.— Eyre, Broekhuysen, & Crichton, 1938: 105, 107.— Eyre & Stephenson, 1938: 29, 32.— Stephenson, 1939: 534.— Simons, 1969: 257, fig. (s.n.).— Jackson, 1976: 33.— Simons, 1977: 49, fig. 140.— Brown & Jarman, 1978: 1256, 1257.— Joubert & Hanekom, 1980: appendix 1.— Seagrief, 1980: 25, fig. on pl. 8.— Bolton & Stegenga, 1987: 177.— Seagrief, 1988: 54, fig. 5:9.— Farrell, Critchley, & Aken, 1993: 153.— Branch et al., 1994: 330, pl. 157.9.
Zanardinula nodifera (Hering) De Toni fil., 1936a: [7].—Stephenson, 1944: 300, 351.— Stephenson, 1947: 308.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: South Africa.