Carpoblepharis obsoleta (C.Agardh) Barros-Barreto & Maggs, comb. nov. Ceramium obsoletum C.Agardh, Species algarum rite cognitae, cum synonymis, differentiis specificis et descriptionibus succinctis.Voluminis secondi, Sectio prior: 145 (Agardh 1828). TYPE LOCALITY. — South Africa. Cape of Good Hope (Silva et al. 1996: 400). LECTOTYPE. — South Africa. Cape of Good Hope, C.Agardh collection 21490 A, B and C (lecto-, here designated, LD). NOTE The original description does not indicate a type, neither does it mention a specimen that can be designated as holotype. Thus, we designated as lectotype C.Agardh’s collection in Lund Herbarium 21490 A (male plant), B (tetrasporophyte), C (male plant) following Simons 1992 annotations.

Published as part of Barros-Barreto, Maria Beatriz, Jaramillo, Maria Alejandra, Hommersand, Max H., Ferreira, Paulo C. G. & Maggs, Christine A., 2023, Phylogenetic analysis of the red algal tribe Ceramieae reveals multiple morphological homoplasies but defines new genera, pp. 13-58 in Cryptogamie, Algologie 44 (2) on page 25, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-algologie2023v44a2, http://zenodo.org/record/7938655