Laurencia obtusa (Hudson) Lamouroux var. majuscula Harvey, 1863: xxvi (type locality: Rottnest Island, Western Australia fide Saito & Womersley, 1974: 820).—Yamada, 1931b: 223–224.— Børgesen, 1933b: 135–136.— Børgesen, 1934b: 46.— Børgesen, 1938b: 230.— Børgesen, 1939b: 120.— Durairatnam, 1963: 25.— Isaac, 1971: 21.— Lawson, 1980: 53.
Laurencia majuscula (Harvey) Lucas in Lucas & Perrin, 1947: 249.—S. Dixit, 1966: 20.— Saito & Womersley, 1974: 819–821, figs. 1A, 6.— Capon et al., 1988: 1303.— Kendrick, Walker, & McComb, 1988: 205, table 1.— Ghisalberti & Jefferies, 1990: 99, table 3.— Huisman et al., 1990: 97.— Huisman & Walker, 1990: 437.— Kendrick, Huisman, & Walker, 1990: 48, 52.— Basson, 1992: 227.— Coppejans & Prud'homme van Reine, 1992a: 190.— Wynne, 1993: 17.— Wynne, 1995: 310, 316, fig. 63.
Misapplied name (fide Saito & Womersley, 1974: 819):
Laurencia dendroidea.—J. Agardh, 1876: 650 (Western Australia records).— Sonder, 1880: 29.— Lucas, 1909: 38.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia, India, Indonesia (Sumba), Iran, Kenya, Maldives, Seychelles (Mahé Island), Sri Lanka.