Cheilosporum spectabile Harvey ex Grunow, 1874: 41 (type locality: Tonga).—Børgesen, 1935: 51–52.— Børgesen, 1938b: 213.— S. Dixit, 1966: 13.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 44.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 19.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1970b: 368.— Subbaramaiah, 1974: 59.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1974a: 302.— V. Krishnamurthy, 1980: 53.— Nair, Sobha, & Arunachalam, 1982: 267 (table 1).— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [29].— Agadi, 1985: 38.— Balasundaram, 1985: 180 ff.— Mageswaran, V. Balakrishnan, & Balasubramaniam, 1985: tables 1–5.— Sobha & Nair, 1985: 22.— Nair et al., 1986: 737.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 106–107.— Untawale, Reddy, & Deshmukhe, 1989: fig. 2, table 1.— V. Krishnamurthy & Balasundaram, 1990: 7, fig. 5.— V. Krishnamurthy et al., 1990: figs. 4–7.— D. Rao et al., 1991: tables 1, 2.— Sofiamma et al., 1991: tables I–IV.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 123.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 18 (table 1).— Maya & Nair, 1992: 32.— Premnathan et al., 1992: table I.— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 43.— Nair et al., 1993: 186.— Kerkar, 1994: table 1.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: India, Laccadive Islands, Seychelles, Sri Lanka.
Note: This species was distributed by Harvey (1857b: no. 31) in his Friendly Island exsiccata under the name Amphiroa (Cheilosporum) spectabilis, without a description.