| Name | Gloeocapsa violacea Kützing |
| Authorship | Kützing |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Gloeocapsa Kützing |
| Citation | 1847 Tab. Phycol. 1: 25, t. 36, fig. IX |
| Holdings | 2 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Gloeocapsa violacea Kützing |
| Identification made in | 1944 (2) |