Dumortier, B.C.J. (1831), Sylloge Jungermannidearum Europae indigenarum: 1831 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Jungermannia tomentella Ehrh. legitimate

Mitten, W. in Hooker, J.D. (1859), Hepaticae. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(8): 234 [secondary reference]

McCarthy, P.M. (2003), Catalogue of Australian Liverworts and Hornworts. Flora of Australia Supplementary Series 21: 106 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Trichocolea mollissima (Hook.f. & Taylor) Gottsche legitimate by Mitten, W. in Hooker, J.D. (1859), Hepaticae. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(8): 234

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