Fucus hybridus De Candolle in Lamarck & De Candolle, 1805: 30 (type locality: Calvados, France).
Laurencia hybrida (De Candolle) T. Lestiboudois, 1827: 26.—Harvey, 1857a: no. 18.— G. Murray, 1887: 30.— S. Dixit, 1970: 124.
Osmundea hybrida (De Candolle) Nam in Nam, Maggs, & Garbary, 1994: 393.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka.