Wrangelia princeps Harvey, 1862: pl. CCXXXIV (including Indian Ocean record) (lectotype locality: Port Phillip Heads, Victoria, Australia fide E. Gordon, 1972: 15).—Harvey, 1863: xxvii.— J. Agardh, 1876: 624.— Sonder, 1880: 29.— De Toni, 1897: 136–137.— Lucas, 1909: 23.— Lucas & Perrin, 1947: 143.— V. May, 1965: 365.— E. Gordon, 1972: 14–15, 17–21, figs. 1–3, 10H,I, 50.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia.
Note: The name Wrangelia princeps, without a description, was used by Harvey in his Australian exsiccata (1857c: no. 257).