Hooker, J.D. & Wilson, W.M. (1844), Musci antarctici, being characters with brief descriptions of the new species of mosses discovered during the voyage of H.M. discovery ships, Erebus and Terror, in the southern circumpolar regions, together with those of Tasmania and New Zealand. London Journal of Botany 3: 545 [comb. nov.]

Mitten, W. (1869), Musci Austro-Americani, sive enumeratio Muscorum omnium Austro-Americanorum mihi hucusque cognitorum, eorum paecipue in terris Amazonicis Andinisque Ricardo Spruceo lectorum. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 12: 239 [basionym]

basionym of: Apalodium australe (Hook.f. & Wilson) Mitt. legitimate

Meijer, W.M. (1952),: 39 [secondary reference]

Shaw, A.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (2006), Orthodontiaceae. Flora of Australia: 271 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Orthodontium lineare Schwägr. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Orthodontium lineare Schwägr. legitimate

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