Laurencia flexilis Setchell, 1926a: 101, pl. 19 (type locality: reef at Tahara Mountain, Tahiti).—Børgesen, 1945: 56–58, figs. 31–33.— Børgesen, 1952: 66–67, fig. 33.— Børgesen, 1953: 55.— Børgesen, 1954a: 46–47.— Baissac, Lubet, & Michel, 1962: 262.— Hodgkin & Michel, 1963: 131.— Isaac, 1967: 81.— Pichon, 1978: 415.— Farghaly, 1980: 165.— Jagtap, 1993: table I.— Farrell et al., 1994: 280.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius.
Note: Jaasund (1970a: 60–62) suggested that Indian Ocean records of Laurencia flexilis apply to the same species as Tanzanian plants that he referred to L. intermedia Yamada.