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: 554 [comb. nov.]

Jaeger, A. & Sauerbeck, F.W. (1878), Adumbratio flore muscorum totius orbis terrarum. Part 8. Bericht über die Thätigkeit der St. Gallischen Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft 1876-1877: 339 [basionym]

basionym of: Brachythecium paradoxum (Hook.f. & Wilson) A.Jaeger legitimate

Ignatov, M.S.; Huttunen, S. (2002), Brachytheciaceae (Bryophyta)—a family of sibling genera. Arctoa 11: 260 [basionym]

basionym of: Brachytheciastrum paradoxum (Hook.f. & Wilson) Ignatov & Huttunen legitimate

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