Acrochaetium elegans (K.M.Drew) Papenfuss 1945[2] is a synonym of Colaconema elegans (K.M.Drew) I.-K.Hwang & H.-S.Kim.
References
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Harper, J.T. & Saunders, G.W. (2002). A re-classification of the Acrochaetiales based on molecular and morphological data, and establishment of the Colaconematales, ord. nov.. British Phycological Journal 37: 463-475
Recherches sur les genres Acrochaetium Naeg. et Rhodochorton Naeg., 1927. (Gontran Hamel's doctoral thesis)