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: 550 [comb. nov.]

Dixon, H.N. (1912), On some mosses of New Zealand. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 40: 455 [basionym]

basionym of: Pterygophyllum dentatum (Hook.f. & Wilson) Dixon legitimate

Vitt, D.H. & Crosby, M.R. (1972), Achrophyllum – a new name for a genus of mosses. The Bryologist 75: 175 [basionym]

basionym of: Achrophyllum dentatum (Hook.f. & Wilson) Vitt & Crosby legitimate

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