Audouinella keralayensis (L. Jose & R.J. Patel) E.K. Ganesan

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 : 12-13

Audouinella keralayensis (L. Jose & R.J. Patel) E.K. Ganesan & J.A.West

Ganesan & West 2013, p. 2.

Taxonomic synonyms: Acrochaetium keralayensis Jose & Patel 1990b, p.177 , figs 1–7; Pseudochantransia keralayensis (Jose & Patel) Ott 2009, p. 378 .

Distribution in India: Kerala (from freshwater flow of Periyar River, near Alwaye, Dec.).

Notes: Ott (2009) transferred five freshwater species from India with an acrochaetioid morphology ( Acrochaetium parva , A. godwardense , A. indica , A. keralayensis and A. sarmaii ) to Pseudochantransia making new combinations. Pending further critical studies, we prefer to include these five species in a broad sense (i.e., bluish and/or reddish coloured with single or multiple plastids with or without pyrenoids in each cell and with or without asexual/sexual reproduction) under a single genus Audouinella .