Forster, J.G.A. (1786), Florulae Insularum Australium Prodromus: 86 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not cited).

Trevisan de Saint-Léon, V.B.A. (1874), Sylloge Sporophytum Italiae. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali 17(2): 247 [basionym]

basionym of: Huperzia squarrosa (G.Forst.) Trevis. legitimate

Löve, Á. & Löve, D. (1977), New combinations in ferns. Taxon 26(2-3): 324 [basionym]

basionym of: Phlegmariurus squarrosus (G.Forst.) Á.Löve & D.Löve legitimate

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1: 12 [secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2: 12 [secondary reference]

Andrews, S.B. (1990), Ferns of Queensland: 236 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Lycopodium squarrosum G.Forst. f. squarrosum legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lycopodium squarrosum f. hippuroides Alderw. legitimate

Chinnock, R.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Lycopodiaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 84 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Huperzia squarrosa (G.Forst.) Trevis. legitimate

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4: 260 [secondary reference]

common name: Water Tassell Fern [n/a] common name: Rock Tassell Fern [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Huperzia squarrosa (G.Forst.) Trevis. legitimate

Field, A.R. & Bostock, P.D. (2013), New and existing combinations in Palaeotropical Phlegmariurus (Lycopodiaceae) and typification of the type species Phlegmariurus phlegmaria (L.) T.Sen & U.Sen. Phytokeys 20: 47 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Phlegmariurus squarrosus (G.Forst.) Á.Löve & D.Löve legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Phlegmariurus squarrosus (G.Forst.) Á.Löve & D.Löve legitimate

Field, A.R. (2 January 2020), Classification and typification of Australian lycophytes and ferns based on Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification PPG I. Australian Systematic Botany 33(1): 8 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "in ins. Mar. Pacifici [islands of the Pacific Ocean], [1772–1775], Forster s.n. (lecto, designated here: GOET 012845*; isolecto: BM 1048443*)."

Field, A.R. (2 January 2020), Classification and typification of Australian lycophytes and ferns based on Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification PPG I. Australian Systematic Botany 33(1): 8 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Phlegmariurus squarrosus (G.Forst.) Á.Löve & D.Löve legitimate

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