Mitten, W. (1882), Australian mosses. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 19: 90 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Hypnum comosum Labill. legitimate

Dalton, P.J., R.D. Seppelt & A.M. Buchanan (1991), An annotated checklist of Tasmanian mosses: 23 [secondary reference]

Bell, N.E., D. Quandt, T.J. O'Brien & A.E. Newton (2007), Taxonomy and phylogeny in the earliest diverging pleurocarps. The Bryologist 110: 555 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Mniodendron comosum (Labill.) Lindb. ex Paris var. comosum legitimate

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