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: 264 [comb. nov.]

Paris, J.E.G.N. (1898), Index Bryologicus sive enumeration muscorum hucusque cognitorum adjunctis synonyma distributioneque geographica locupletissimis: 1131 [basionym]

basionym of: Hypnum luxatum Mitt. ex Paris nom. inval.

Paris, J.E.G.N. (1898), Index Bryologicus sive enumeration muscorum hucusque cognitorum adjunctis synonyma distributioneque geographica locupletissimis: 1131 [basionym]

basionym of: Rhynchostegium laxatum (Mitt.) Paris legitimate

Willis, J.H. (1972), J.H.Willis (1972), Victorian Naturalist 89 89: 299 [basionym]

basionym of: Rhynchostegium taxatum J.H.Willis nom. inval.

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