Laurencia flexuosa Kützing, 1849: 856 (type locality: "Ad Caput Bonae Spei'', South Africa).—J. Agardh, 1852 [1851–1863]: 767–768.— Hohenacker, 1854 [1852–1862]: no. 184.— Kützing, 1865: 24, pl. 68.— Barton, 1893: 174.— De Toni, 1903: 802–803.— Mazza, 1909 [1905–1918]: 14.— Delf & Michell, 1921: 112.— Stephenson, Stephenson, & du Toit, 1937: 355, 363, 373.— Eyre, Broekhuysen, & Crichton, 1938: 107.— Eyre & Stephenson, 1938: 33.— Kylin, 1938: 24.— Stephenson, Stephenson, & Bright, 1938: 5.— Stephenson, 1939: 534.— Stephenson, 1944: 317, 351.— Stephenson, 1947: 306.— Seagrief, 1967: 104, pl. [44].— Simons, 1969: 256, fig. (s.n.).— Seagrief, 1977: 90.— Simons, 1977: 50, fig. 171.— Brown & Jarman, 1978: 1259.— Beckley & McLachlan, 1979: 178, figs. 5–7.— Beckley & McLachlan, 1980: 173, tables 1–3.— Seagrief, 1980: 27, fig. on pl. 11.— Bolton, 1986: 254.— Bolton & Stegenga, 1987: 175.— Seagrief, 1988: 37, 70, fig. 5:17.— Stegenga, 1988: 383, 391.— R. Anderson & Stegenga, 1989: 303, 304, 305.— Bolton & Stegenga, 1990: 237.— Farrell, Critchley, & Aken, 1993: 152.— Branch et al., 1994: 334, pl. 159.1.
Misapplied names:
Chondria pinnatifida.—Suhr, 1834: 733.
Laurencia pinnatifida.—Barton, 1893: 174.— Delf & Michell, 1921: 113.
Chondria pinnatifida (Hudson) C. Agardh var. angusta.—Krauss, 1846: 211.
Laurencia elata.—Delf & Michell, 1921: 113.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: South Africa.
Note: The misapplied names are included on the authority of Papenfuss (notes and in Seagrief, 1984: 38, 39).