Laurencia distichophylla J. Agardh, 1852 [1851–1863]: 762–763 (type locality: "in oceano australi ?'' [probably New Zealand fide Papenfuss, 1952: 184]).—Børgesen, 1952: 65–66, fig. 32 (with query).— Jaasund, 1970a: 63, figs. 1C, 2C.— Isaac, 1971: 21.— Jaasund, 1976: 141, fig. 286, pl. 12.— Pichon, 1978: 415.— Farghaly, 1980: 165.— Lawson, 1980: 53.— Mshigeni, 1984: table 1.— Payri, 1985: 640.— Banaimoon, 1988a: 220, fig. 15.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 21 (table 1).— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 44.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Aldabra Islands, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius?, Réunion, Seychelles, Tanzania, Yemen.
Note: Wynne & Ballantine (1991: 397) suggested that Jaasund's records of Laurencia distichophylla from Tanzania might be referable to L. iridescens, their new species from the Caribbean Sea.