Bartram, E.B. & Dixon, H.N. (1937), Botaniska Notiser 1937: 77 [tax. nov.]

Frahm, J.-P., Borner, H., Streiber, N., Wallau, B. & Weitkus, S. (1996), Revision der Gattung Conostomum (Musci, Bartramiaceae). Tropical Bryology 12: 100 [secondary reference]

Gilmore, S.R. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (2006), Bartramiaceae. Flora of Australia 51: 264 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Conostomum pusillum Hook.f. & Wilson var. pusillum legitimate by Frahm, J.-P., Borner, H., Streiber, N., Wallau, B. & Weitkus, S. (1996), Revision der Gattung Conostomum (Musci, Bartramiaceae). Tropical Bryology 12: 100

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