Mitten, W. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), A list of the musci and hepaticae collected in Victoria, Australia, by Dr. F. Mueller. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 8: 261 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Bartramia affinis Hook. legitimate

Groves, E.W. & D. Moore (1989), A list of the cryptogams and gymnospermous plant specimens in the British Museum (Natural History) gathered by Robert Brown in Australia 1801-1805. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 111: 83 [secondary reference]

Streimann, H. & Curnow, J. (1989), Catalogue of mosses of Australia and its external territories: 41 [secondary reference]

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]

Gilmore, S.R. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (2006), Bartramiaceae. Flora of Australia: 257 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Breutelia commutata A.Jaeger legitimate

Klazenga, N. (2015), AusMoss: Catalogue of Australian mosses, v. 2015-11-16: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Bartramia brownei Brid. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Breutelia commutata A.Jaeger legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

• distribution: W.A., S.A., Qld, N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic., Tas.
• remarks: Selkirk et al. (1990) deleted the Macquarie Island record (Streimann & Curnow, 1989: 41)

Klazenga, N. (2023), Census of Australian Bryophytes v. 2023-02-28: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Bartramia commutata Hampe nom. illeg.

• distribution: W.A., S.A., Qld, N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic., Tas.
• Comment: Includes Breutelia sp. A sec Gilmore (2006)

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