1940s

• Womersley, H.B.S. 1949. Studies on the marine algae of southern Australia. No 3. Notes on Dictyopteris Lamouroux. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 73: 113–116, 1 fig, Plate XXII. Reference page. 

1950s

• Womersley, H.B.S. & Shepley, E.A. 1959. Studies on the Sarcomenia group of the Rhodophyta. Australian Journal of Botany 7: 168–223, 110 figs, 5 plates. Reference page. 

1960s

• Shepley, E.A. & Womersley, H.B.S. 1960. Sympodophyllum, a new genus of Delesseriaceae (Rhodophyta) from South Australia. Nova Hedwigia 1(3-4): 383–388, Plate 76. Reference page. 

• Womersley, H.B.S. 1964. The morphology and taxonomy of Cystophora and related genera (Phaeophyta). Australian Journal of Botany 12: 53–110, 48 figs, 16 plates. DOI: 10.1071/BT9640053 Reference page. 

• Womersley, H.B.S. 1965. The morphology and relationships of Sonderella (Rhodophyta, Rhodomelaceae). Australian Journal of Botany 13: 435–450, 16 figs, 3 plates. Reference page. 
• Womersley, H.B.S. 1965. The Helminthocladiaceae (Rhodophyta) of southern Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 13: 451–487, 75 figs, 7 plates.

• Womersley, H.B.S. 1967. A critical survey of the marine algae of southern Australia. II. Phaeophyta. Australian Journal of Botany 15: 189–270, 6 figs. Reference page. 
• Nizamuddin, M. & Womersley, H.B.S. 1967. The morphology and taxonomy of Myriodesma (Fucales). Nova Hedwigia 12: 373–383, plates 69–73.

• Womersley, H.B.S. & Abbott, I.A. 1968. Structure and reproduction of Neoardissonea Kylin (Rhodophyta, Naccariaceae). Journal of Phycology 4: 173–177. Reference page. 

• Baldock, R.N. & Womersley, H.B.S. 1968. The genus Bornetia (Rhodophyta, Ceramiaceae) and its southern Australian representatives, with description of Involucrana gen nov.. Australian Journal of Botany 16: 197–216, 35 figs, 4 plates. Reference page. 

1970s

• Womersley, H.B.S. & Bailey, A. 1970. Marine algae of the Solomon Islands. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B. Biological Sciences 259: 257–352. Reference page. 

• Womersley, H.B.S. 1971. The relationships of Nizymenia and Stenocladia (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 10: 199–203, 4 figs. Reference page. 

• Womersley, H.B.S. & Norris, R.E. 1971. The morphology and taxonomy of Australian Kallymeniaceae (Rhodophyta). Australian Journal of Botany (Suppl. 2): 1–62, 108 figs. Reference page. 

• Womersley, H.B.S. 1973. Further studies on Australian Kallymeniaceae (Rhodophyta). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 97: 253–256, 7 figs. Reference page. 
• Gordon-Mills, E.M. & Womersley, H.B.S. 1974. The morphology and life history of Mazoyerella gen. nov. (M. arachnoidea (Harvey) comb. nov.) - Rhodophyta, Ceramiaceae - from southern Australia. British Phycological Journal 9: 127–137.

• MacRaild, G.N. & Womersley, H.B.S. 1974. The morphology and reproduction of Derbesia clavaeformis (J. Agardh) DeToni (Chlorophyta). Phycologia 13: 83–93, 15 figs, 1 table. DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-13-2-83.1 Reference page. 

• Saito, Y. & Womersley, H.B.S. 1974. The southern Australian species of Laurencia (Ceramiales: Rhodophyta). Australian Journal of Botany 22(4): 815–874, 27 figs. DOI: 10.1071/BT9740815 . Reference page. 
• Womersley, H.B.S. & Conway, E. 1975. Porphyra and Porphyropsis (Rhodophyta) in southern Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 99: 59–70, 7 figs.

• Min-Thein, U. & Womersley, H.B.S. 1976. Studies on southern Australian taxa of Solieriaceae, Rhabdoniaceae and Rhodophyllidaceae (Rhodophyta). Australian Journal of Botany 24: 1–166, 69 figs. Reference page. 

• Reedman, D.J. & Womersley, H.B.S. 1976. Southern Australian species of Champia and Chylocladia (Rhodymeniales: Rhodophyta). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 100: 75–104, 14 figs. Reference page. 

• Womersley, H.B.S. 1978. Southern Australian species of Ceramium Roth (Rhodophyta). Australian Journal of Botany 29: 205–257, 15 figs. Reference page. 

1980s

• Womersley, H.B.S. & Shepley, E.A. 1982. Southern Australian species of Hypoglossum (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta). Australian Journal of Botany 30: 321–346, 9 figs. DOI: 10.1071/BT9820321 Reference page. 
• Shepley, E.A. & Womersley, H.B.S. 1983. The Dumontiaceae (Cryptonemiales, Rhodophyta) of southern Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 107: 201–217, 6 figs. BHL

• Skinner, S. & Womersley, H.B.S. 1984. Southern Australian taxa of Giraudiaceae (Dictyosiphonales, Phaeophyta). Phycologia 23: 161–181, 57 figs, 2 tables. Reference page. 

• Womersley, H.B.S. 1987. The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part II, Phaeophyta. 481 pp., 169 figs, 1 table, 8 plates, 4 maps. Adelaide: South Australian Government Printing Division. online Reference page. 
• Gordon-Mills, E.M. & Womersley, H.B.S. 1987. The genus Chondria C. Agardh (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) in southern Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 35: 477–565, 29 figs.

1990s

• Edyvane, K.S. & Womersley, H.B.S. 1993. Morphology and taxonomy of Rhodoglossum gigartinoides (Sonder) comb. nov. (Gigartinaceae, Rhodophyta) from Australia and New Zealand. Phycologia 32: 237–250, 27 figs. DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-32-4-237.1

• Guiry, M.D. & Womersley, H.B.S. 1993. Capreolia implexa gen. et sp. nov. in Australia and New Zealand (Gelidiales, Rhodophyta); an intertidal red alga with an unusual life history. Phycologia 32: 266–277. Reference page. 
• Johansen, H.W. & Womersley, H.B.S. 1994. Jania (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in southern Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 7: 605–625, 42 figs.

• Woelkerling, W.J. & Womersley, H.B.S. 1994. Order Acrochaetiales Feldmann 1953: 12. In: The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Rhodophyta - Part IIIA. (Womersley, H.B.S. Eds), pp. 42–76. Canberra. online Reference page. 

• Huisman, J.M. & Womersley, H.B.S. 1994. Family Galaxauraceae Parkinson 1983: 608. In: The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Rhodophyta - Part IIIA. (Womersley, H.B.S. Eds), pp. 99–118. Canberra. online Reference page. 

• Womersley, H.B.S. & Guiry, M.D. 1994. Order Gelidiales Kylin 1923: 132. In: The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part IIIA. Bangiophyceae and Florideophyceae (Acrochaetiales, Nemaliales, Gelidiales, Hildenbrandiales and Gigartinales sensu lato). (Womersley, H.B.S. Eds), pp. 118–142. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study. online Reference page. 

• Womersley, H.B.S. & Lewis, J.A. 1994. Family Halymeniaceae Bory 1828: 158. In: The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part IIIA. Bangiophyceae and Florideophyceae (Acrochaetiales, Nemaliales, Gelidiales, Hildenbrandiales and Gigartinales sensu lato). (Womersley, H.B.S. Eds), pp. 167–218. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study. Reference page. 

• Lewis, J.A. & Womersley, H.B.S. 1994. Family Phyllophoraceae Nägeli 1847: 248. In: The marine benthic flora of Southern Australia. Part III A. (Womersley, H.B.S. Eds), pp. 259–270. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study. Reference page. 

• Womersley, H.B.S. & Kraft, G.T. 1994. Family Nemastomataceae Schmitz 1892:2, nom. cons.. In: The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part IIIA. Bangiophyceae and Florideophyceae (Acrochaetiales, Nemaliales, Gelidiales, Hildenbrandiales and Gigartinales sensu lato). (Womersley, H.B.S. Eds), pp. 270–285. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study. Reference page. 

• Edyvane, K.S. & Womersley, H.B.S. 1994. Family Gigartinaceae Kützing 1843: 389. In: The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Rhodophyta - Part IIIA. (Womersley, H.B.S. Eds), Canberra: 285–314. Reference page. 

• Womersley, H.B.S. 1996. The marine benthic flora of southern Australia - Part IIIB - Gracilariales, Rhodymeniales, Corallinales and Bonnemaisoniales. Vol. 5 pp. 1–392, 160 figs. Canberra & Adelaide: Australian Biological Resources Study & the State Herbarium of South Australia. online Reference page. 

• Womersley, H.B.S. 1998. The marine benthic flora of southern Australia - Part IIIC. Ceramiales - Ceramiaceae, Dasyaceae. pp. 535. Canberra & Adelaide: Australian Biological Resources Study & State Herbarium of South Australia. online Reference page. 

• Womersely, H.B.S. & Wollaston, E.M. 1998. Tribe Pterothamnieae. In: The Marine Flora of South Australia Part IIIC. (Womersley, H.B.S. Eds), pp. 132–156. Canberra: State Herbarium of South Australia. online Reference page. 

2000s

• Womersley, H.B.S. 2003. The marine benthic flora of southern Australia - Part IIID Ceramiales - Delesseriaceae, Sarcomeniaceae, Rhodomelaceae. pp. [1]–533. Canberra & Adelaide: Australian Biological Resources Study & State Herbarium of South Australia. online Reference page.