Dasya scoparia Harvey in J. Agardh, 1841: 34–35 (type locality: Cape of Good Hope, South Africa).—Harvey, 1847 [1847–1849]: 62, pl. XXI.— J. Agardh, 1890: 105.— Barton, 1893: 175.— De Toni, 1903: 1207–1208.— Eyre, Broekhuysen, & Crichton, 1938: 101.— Kylin, 1938: 17.— Børgesen, 1945: 27–28.— Stephenson, 1947: 303.— Isaac, 1957b: 99.— Isaac, 1967: 81.— Lawson, 1980: 41.— Seagrief, 1980: 27, fig. on pl. 11.— Bolton & Stegenga, 1987: 174.— Seagrief, 1988: 66, fig. 5:15.— Farrell, Critchley, & Aken, 1993: 151.
Misapplied name (fide Børgesen, 1945: 28):
Dasya arbuscula.—Jadin, 1935: 169.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, South Africa.