Amansia jungermannioides Hering & G. Martens in G. Martens & Hering, 1836: 485, figs. 1–4 (type locality: Tor, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt).
Polyzonia jungermannioides (Hering & G. Martens) J. Agardh, 1841: 25.—J. Agardh, 1863 [1851–1863]: 1169–1171.— Dickie, 1874b: 192.— Sonder, 1879: 80.— G. Murray, 1887: 32.— Möbius, 1893: 138.— Heydrich, 1894: 296.— Jadin, 1935: 169.
Leveillea jungermannioides (Hering & G. Martens) Harvey, 1855b: 539 (including Indian Ocean records).—Schmitz, 1895a: 140.— Schmitz, 1895b: 28.— De Wildeman, 1900: 419.— De Toni, 1903: 1033–1035.— Okamura, 1904: 90–91, 94.— Svedelius, 1906b: 195.— Reinbold, 1907: 574.— Lucas, 1909: 44.— Weber-van Bosse, 1923: 365.— Chowdhury, 1932: 294.— Børgesen, 1934b: 49.— Børgesen, 1937a: 56.— Børgesen, 1937b: 354–355, fig. 19.— Børgesen, 1939b: 132.— Børgesen, 1945: 42–43.— Børgesen, 1954a: 47.— Chacko, Mahadevan, & R. Ganesan, 1955: 13.— Pocock, 1958: 27.— Varma, 1959: 249.— K. Srinivasan, 1960b: 457.— Durairatnam, 1961a: 69, pl. XIX: 12–14.— Varma, 1961: 221.— V. May, 1965: 401.— S. Dixit, 1966: 21.— Isaac, 1967: 81.— C.S.P. Rao, 1967b: 167–168, figs. 1–4.— Scagel & Chihara, 1968: 1543–1544, figs. 1–6.— Lawson, 1969: 335.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 48.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 26.— S. Qasim, Bhattathiri, & Reddy, 1972: 218.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1972: 221.— Sartoni, 1975: 301.— Jaasund, 1976: 131, figs. 265A,B.— Sartoni, 1976: 139.— Hackett, 1977: 20.— Jaasund, 1977b: 411.— Sivalingam, 1977b: 206.— Chauhan & Mairh, 1978: 35.— Basson, 1979: 79, pl. XVI: fig. 91.— Knutzen & Jaasund, 1979: 3.— Farghaly, 1980: 165.— V. Krishnamurthy, 1980: 55.— Lawson, 1980: 54.— Seagrief, 1980: 27, fig. on pl. 12.— Teo & Wee, 1983: 108, fig. 114.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [38].— Barratt et al., 1984: species list.— Untawale & Jagtap, 1984: 101 (table 1).— Payri, 1985: 640.— Sobha & Nair, 1985: 23.— Nair et al., 1986: 738.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 110–111.— Jagtap, 1987: table 1.— Kendrick, Walker, & McComb, 1988: 205, table 1.— Basson, Mohamed, & Arora, 1989: 38–39.— Phang, 1989: 87–88.— Huisman et al., 1990: 97.— Huisman & Walker, 1990: 438.— Kendrick, Huisman, & Walker, 1990: 52.— V. Krishnamurthy & Balasundaram, 1990: 8.— V. Krishnamurthy et al., 1990: figs. 4, 5, 7, 8.— Phang & Wee, 1991: 60.— Basson, 1992: 227.— Kaliaperumal, Rajagopalan, & Chennubhotla, 1992: 106.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 124.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 21 (table 1).— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 44.— Zvyagintsev & Ivin, 1992: 16 (table 9).— Kalugina-Gutnik, 1993: 56.— Wynne, 1995: 315, fig. 71.
Leveillea schimperi Decaisne, 1839: 376, nom. illeg.—Sonder, 1848 [1846–1848]: 183.— Harvey, 1849 [1847–1849]: 72–73.— Harvey, 1860b: pl. CLXXI.— Harvey, 1863: xv.— G. Martens, 1868: 32.— Sonder, 1880: 31.— De Wildeman, 1897a: 177.
Taxonomic synonyms:
* Leveillea gracilis Decaisne, 1839: 376 (type locality: Sri Lanka).—Kützing, 1849: 882.— Harvey, 1857a: no. 6.— Askenasy, 1888: 52.
* Leveillea schimperi Decaisne var. nuda Sonder, 1848 [1846–1848]: 183 (type locality: Western Australia).
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia, Bahrain, India, Indonesia (Java; Sumatra; Timor), Iran, Kenya, Laccadive Islands, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mozambique, Oman, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles (including Mahé Island), Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania.
Note: In transferring Amansia jungermannioides to Leveillea, Decaisne unnecessarily changed the epithet to schimperi. The conspecificity of L. schimperi var. nuda and L. gracilis was proposed by Sonder (1848 [1846–1848]: 183), that of L. gracilis and L. jungermannioides by Harvey (1855b: 538).