Mueller, F.J.H. von (1881), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae, Supplementum ad Volumen Undecimum: 114 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Tortula recurvata Hook. legitimate

Catcheside, D.G. (1980), Mosses of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Desmatodon reflexidens (Hampe) A.Jaeger legitimate

Dalton, P.J., R.D. Seppelt & A.M. Buchanan (1991), An annotated checklist of Tasmanian mosses: 26 [secondary reference]

Stoneburner, A.; Wyatt, R.E.; Catcheside, D.G. & Stone, I.G. (1993), Census of the mosses of Western Australia. The Bryologist 96: 90 [secondary reference]

Zander, R.H. (1993), Genera of the Pottiaceae. Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci 32: 295 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Tortula recurvata Hook. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Tortula recurvata Hook. legitimate

---