Kunze, G. (1843), Botanische Zeitung 1: 721 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Ad fluvium cygnorum Novae Hollandiae, in terra, ut videtur, limosa, humida gregarium legit Drummond. Specimina pauca, partim fertilia, partim sterilia vidi in herbario Shuttleworthiana sub No. 993 ...

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1861), Sixth Systematic Index of the Plants indigenous to the Colony of Victoria. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 18 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 94 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 136 [secondary reference]

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Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 3 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 43 [secondary reference]

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 49 [secondary reference]

vernacular name: Pygmy Clubmoss [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 3 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 25 [secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Lycopodiaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 43, Fig. 1 [secondary reference]

common name: Pigmy Clubmoss [n/a]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Lycopodiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 8 [secondary reference]

common name: Pigmy Clubmoss [n/a]

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): 321 [secondary reference]

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common name: Pygmy Clubmoss [n/a]

Chinnock, R.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Lycopodiaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 85, Fig. 42A, Map 46 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Lycopodium sanguisorba Spring legitimate

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 21 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Lycopodiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 8 [secondary reference]

common name: Pigmy Clubmoss [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 224 [secondary reference]

common name: Pigmy Clubmoss [n/a]

Tindale, M.D. & Roy, S.K. (23 December 2002), A cytotaxonomic survey of the Pteridophyta of Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 15(6): 843 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Phylloglossum drummondi Kunze orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Lycopodium sanguisorba Spring legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Vic, Tas

Christenhusz, M.J.M., Zhang, X.C. & Schneider, H. (2011), A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns. Phytotaxa 19: 20 [basionym]

basionym of: Huperzia drummondii (Kunze) Christenh. & H.Schneid. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Phylloglossum drummondi Kunze orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Huperzia drummondii (Kunze) Christenh. & H.Schneid. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lycopodium sanguisorba Spring legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Vic, Tas

Brownsey, P.J., Perrie, L.R. & Field, A.R. (2018), Taxonomic notes on the New Zealand flora: lectotypes in Isoetaceae and Lycopodiaceae. New Zealand Journal of Botany 56(4): 403 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "(designated here): Ad fluvium cygnorum Novae Hollandiae [Swan River, Western Australia], 1843, Drummond, Herbarium Shuttleworthianum 993, BM, top left hand numbered specimen, labelled package and labelled specimens (!online)."

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): 9 [secondary reference]

• Type: "ad fluvium cygnorum Novae Hollandiae [Swan River, Western Australia], 1843, Drummond, Herbarium Shuttleworthianum 993 (lecto: BM [top left-hand numbered specimen, labelled package and labelled specimens]*; isolectotypes: K 001094294* [mixed sheet], P 01239454!,"

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