Kumanoa dasyphylla

Ganesan, E. K., West, John A. & Jr, Orlando Necchi, 2018, A catalogue and bibliography of non-marine (freshwater and estuarine) Rhodophyta (red algae) of India, Phytotaxa 364 (1), pp. 1-48 : 17

Kumanoa dasyphylla (Skuja ex Balakrishnan & B.B.Chaugule) E.K.Ganesan & J.A.West

Ganesan & West 2013, p. 4.

Taxonomic synonym: Batrachospermm dasyphyllum Skuja ex Balakrishnan & Chaugule 1980c, p. 230, figs 4–7; Desikachary et al. 1990, Part II A, p. 90; Kumano 2002, p. 211, Pl. 129, figs 4–7; Ott 2009, p. 22.

Distribution in India: Andhra Pradesh: (Mamandur, in stream on a hill collected by M.O.P. Iyengar (19. ii.1930). This information is based on a personal communication from S. Ryman, Curator, UPS, and dated 14.iv.2010; Balakrishnan & Chaugule, 1980c, p. 231, however cited Karnataka, Jog Falls as the type locality).

Notes: This species is known only from a single original collection made by Iyengar in 1930. Balakrishnan and Chaugule (1980c) validated the species by providing a detailed description, figures, Latin diagnosis and a holotype. Necchi & Vis (2012) treated it as a doubtful species in their monograph of the genus Kumanoa .