Audouinella sarmae (M. Khan) Garbary

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 : 13-14

Audouinella sarmae (M. Khan) Garbary

Garbary 1987, p.133; Kumano 2002, p. 59, Pl. 31, figs 1–6.

Taxonomic synonyms: Acrochaetium sarmaii Khan 1970, p. 250 , figs 1–6; Desikachary et al. 1990, Part II A, p. 78, fig 12 A–C; Pseudochantransia sarmaii (Khan) Ott : Ott, 2009, p. 380.

Distribution in India: Uttarakhand (formerly Uttaranchal Dehra Dun Water Works outlet) growing on mosses, Aug, Oct.).

Notes: Following Silva (2017) and Guiry & Guiry (2017), we use the spelling “ sarmae ” instead of A. sarmaii as originally provided by Khan (1970). Sheath (1984) referred this species as Audouinella sarmae (Khan) Sheath ( Sheath,

1984), but was considered invalid, since a basionym was not cited. Later, Garbary (1987) citing the basionym validated it. Kumano (2002) included Audouinella sarmae , A. godwardense and A. indica under the genus Acrochaetium and not under Audouinella . The three species of Audouinella i.e., Audouinella indica , A. jogensis , and A. pulvinata , are known only in the type collections from those localities in India.