Paris, J.E.G.N. (1894), Index Bryologicus sive enumeration muscorum hucusque cognitorum adjunctis synonyma distributioneque geographica locupletissimis: 116 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Glyphocarpa pusilla Hook.f. & Wilson legitimate

Griffin III, D.G. & W.R. Buck (1989), Taxonomic and phylogenetic studies on the Bartramiaceae. The Bryologist 92: 376 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Philonotis australiensis D.G.Griffin & W.R.Buck legitimate

Dalton, P.J., R.D. Seppelt & A.M. Buchanan (1991), An annotated checklist of Tasmanian mosses: 16 [secondary reference]

Stoneburner, A.; Wyatt, R.E.; Catcheside, D.G. & Stone, I.G. (1993), Census of the mosses of Western Australia. The Bryologist 96: 95 [secondary reference]

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