Paris, J.E.G.N. (1900), Index Bryologicus sive enumeratio muscorum hucusque cognitorum adiunctis synonymia distributioneque geographica locupletissimis. Supplementum primum: 292 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Hypnum purpurascens Brid. legitimate

Dalton, P.J., R.D. Seppelt & A.M. Buchanan (1991), An annotated checklist of Tasmanian mosses: 21 [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]

Frahm, J.-P. (1996), Revision der Gattung Rhacocarpus Lindb. (Musci). Cryptog., Bryol. Lichénol 17: 42 [secondary reference]

Magill, R.E. & J. van Rooy in Leistner, O.A. (ed.) (1998), Bryophyta. Part. 1. Mosses. Fasc. 3. Erpodiaceae–Hookeriaceae. Flora of Southern Africa, which deals with the territories of the Republic of South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia and Botswana: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Rhacocarpus rehmannianus (Müll.Hal.) Wijk & Margad. legitimate

Seppelt, R.D. (2004), The moss flora of Macquarie Island: 246 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Hypnum purpurascens Brid. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Anictangium humboldtii Hook. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Hedwigia humboldtii (Hook.) Hook. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Harrisonia humboldtii (Hook.) Spreng. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Harrisonia australis Hampe legitimate taxonomic synonym: Rhacocarpus humboldtii (Hook.) Lindb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Braunia humboldtii (Hook.) Hook.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Rhacocarpus australis (Hook.f. & Wilson) Paris legitimate

• CAB Dist.: WA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas, HI, MI

• distribution: W.A., Qld, N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic., Tas., Macquarie I., Heard I.

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