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: 548 [basionym]

basionym of: Hookeria pulchella Hook.f. & Wilson nom. illeg.

Müller, J.K.(C.)A.(F.W.) (1850), Synopsis Muscorum Frondosorum omnium hucusque Cognitorum 2: 23 [comb. nov.]

Mitten, W. (1882), Australian mosses. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 19: 77 [basionym]

basionym of: Distichophyllum pulchellum (Hampe) Mitt. legitimate

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