Phitymophora crenata J. Agardh ex Mazza, 1908 [1905–1918]: 116–117 (type locality: The Kowie [Port Alfred], Cape Province, South Africa).—De Toni, 1924: 340.
Bartoniella crenata (J. Agardh ex Mazza) Kylin, 1924: 11–12, figs. 12a,b.—Wagner, 1954: 287–291, figs. 17–36.— Isaac, 1971: 20.— Seagrief, 1977: 90.— Lawson, 1980: 35.— Seagrief, 1988: 64, fig. 5:14.— Wynne, 1988: 522, fig. 6.— Wynne, 1994: a-84.
Misapplied names (fide Papenfuss notes):
Delesseria ramentacea.—Drège, 1843: 157.
Delesseria imbricata.—Barton, 1893: 144.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Kenya, South Africa.
Note: The name Phitymophora crenata was first published, without a description or illustration, by J. Agardh (1898: 174). A specimen from the type collection was cited by Delf & Michell (1921: 112) under the Schmitz manuscript name Delesseria bartoniae. Papenfuss examined Drège's material at the British Museum (BM) in 1950 and at Hamburg (HBG) in 1954.