Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1101 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europae sylvis muscosis."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1861), Sixth Systematic Index of the Plants indigenous to the Colony of Victoria. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 18 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 94 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 136 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 280 [secondary reference]

Ewart, A.J. (1931), Flora of Victoria: 27 [secondary reference]

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 51 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Lycopodium fastigiatum R.Br. legitimate by Ewart, A.J. (1931), Flora of Victoria: 27

Chinnock, R.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Lycopodiaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 67 [secondary reference]

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