Laurencia nana Howe, 1920: 556, nom. illeg. (type locality: Mariguana [Mayaguana], Bahamas).—Subbaramaiah, 1974: 59.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [37], [40].— Annapurna & B. Rao, 1987a: 89–92, figs. 1–4.
Laurencia caraibica P. Silva, 1972: 205.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: India.
Note: Laurencia caraibica is a substitute name for L. nana Howe, a later homonym of L. nana (C. Agardh) Greville (1830: lii) (Chondria nana C. Agardh, 1827: 643; type locality: Trieste, Italy), which J. Agardh (1863 [1851–1863]: 756) considered a small form of Laurencia paniculata (C. Agardh) J. Agardh (treated as a taxonomic synonym of L. glandulifera (Kützing) Kützing).