Sporochnus scoparius Harvey, 1855b: 535 (lectotype locality: Western Australia ["Garden and Rottnest Is.''] fide Womersley, 1967: 241).—Kützing, 1859: 35, pl. 84: fig. I.— Harvey, 1862: pl. CCXXVI.— Harvey, 1863: x.— Sonder, 1880: 6.— De Toni, 1895b: 383.— Lucas, 1909: 17.— Womersley, 1967: 241.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia.