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

basionym: Lycopodium squarrosum G.Forst. legitimate

Pichi Sermolli, R.E.G. (1991), The pteridological collections of the G.R.S.T.S. Expedition to the coastal region of north-eastern Queensland. Webbia; raccolta di scritti botanici 45(2): 320 [secondary reference]

Chinnock, R.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Lycopodiaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 84, Fig. 43M-N, Map 45 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Lycopodium squarrosum G.Forst. legitimate misapplication: Lycopodium hippuris Desv. legitimate by White, C.T. (1917), Queensland Agricultural Journal Series 2 8: 313, t. 43 common name: Water Tassel Fern [n/a]

Threatened Species and Communities Section, Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia (8 July 1998), Endangered Species Protection Act 1992. Schedules 1, 2 & 3: 9 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Lycopodium squarrosum G.Forst. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Lycopodium squarrosum G.Forst. f. squarrosum legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lycopodium squarrosum f. hippuroides Alderw. legitimate misapplication: Lycopodium hippuris Desv. legitimate by Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (3 September 1814), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique Suppl. 3(2): 559

• APC Dist.: Qld

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 [nomenclatural synonym]

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

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