Garden, J.G. & Johnson, L.A.S. (14 March 1951), Microstrobos, a new name for a podocarpaceous genus. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 1(6): 316 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Microstrobus niphophilus J.Garden & L.Johnson

Thompson, J. (1961), Podocarpaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 2: 42, 44 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 86-87 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 2 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 6 [secondary reference]

Wells, P.M. & Hill, R.S. (1989), Leaf morphology in the imbricate-leaved Podocarpaceae. Australian Systematic Botany 2(4): 369-386 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Thompson, J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Podocarpaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 81 [secondary reference]

Page, C.N. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1990), Podocarpaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 1: 344 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Pherosphaera W.Archer bis legitimate

Hill, K.D. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Podocarpaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 561 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Thompson, J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Podocarpaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 81 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K., Mill, R.R. & Farjon, A. (2004), The significance of 'it' in the nomenclature of three Tasmanian conifers: Microcachrys tetragona and Microstrobos niphophilus (Podocarpaceae), and Diselma archeri (Cupressaceae). Taxon 53(2): 537 [secondary reference]

• Text: "The type proposed in the protologue was "M. niphophilus", but since that name was not validly published it cannot be the type under Art. 10.2. The only validly published specific name in the generic protologue was M. fitzgeraldii, which is thus automatically the type."
• Text: "Although the authors cited "Pherosphaera Archer" in synonymy, the name Microstrobos is not illegitimate because they simultaneously explicitly excluded the type of that name."

Brummitt, R.K., Mill, R.R. & Farjon, A. (2004), The significance of 'it' in the nomenclature of three Tasmanian conifers: Microcachrys tetragona and Microstrobos niphophilus (Podocarpaceae), and Diselma archeri (Cupressaceae). Taxon 53(2): 537 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pherosphaera W.Archer bis legitimate

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 655 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pherosphaera W.Archer bis legitimate

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