Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1804), Magazin Encyclopedique, ou Journal des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts 5: 324 [tax. nov.]

Arnott, G.A.W. (1825), Disposition Methodique des Especes de Mousses: 56 [basionym]

basionym of: Hookeria sect. Cyathophorum (P.Beauv.) Arn. legitimate

Kruijer, H.J.D. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (2006), Hypopterygiaceae. Flora of Australia 51: 378 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Hookeria sect. Cyathophorum (P.Beauv.) Arn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cyathophonum P.Beauv. ex Brid. nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Cyathophorum sect. Eu-Cyathophorum Broth. nom. inval.

• Comment: from the Greek cyathos (a cup) and phoreo (to bear), in reference to the vaginula

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