Wyatt, R.E. & Stoneburner, A.H. (1989), Pleurophascum occidentale: A new moss from Western Australia. The Bryologist 92: 299-301, Figs 1-5 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Western Australia: Robinson's Gully. Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, 30 km E of Albany. 19 August 1984, Stoneburner & Wyatt 4373 (holotype, DUKE; isotypes, CANB, CHR, MICH, MO, NY, PERTH, US).

Threatened Species and Communities Section, Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia (8 July 1998), Endangered Species Protection Act 1992. Schedules 1, 2 & 3: 24 [secondary reference]

Streimann, H. & Klazenga, N. (2002), Catalogue of Australian Mosses. Flora of Australia Supplementary Series 17: 133 [secondary reference]

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