Gaudichaud-Beaupre, C. (1828), Voyage Autour du Monde ... sur les Corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne. Botanique 7: 281 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In insulis Moluccis (Rawak) ad arborum ramos."

Bailey, F.M. (1902), The Queensland Flora 6: 1924 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 634 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Lycopodium tetrapterygium F.M.Bailey legitimate common name: Tasselled Club-Moss [n/a]

Domin, K. (January 1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 227 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Lycopodium tetrapterygium F.M.Bailey legitimate

Rothmaler, W.H.P. (30 September 1944), Pteridophyten-Studien I. Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 54(1): 62 [basionym]

basionym of: Huperzia phlegmarioides (Gaudich.) Rothm. legitimate

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1: 12 [secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2: 12 [secondary reference]

Chinnock, R.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Lycopodiaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 83 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Huperzia phlegmarioides (Gaudich.) Rothm. legitimate

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4: 260 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Huperzia phlegmarioides (Gaudich.) Rothm. legitimate

Field, A.R. & Bostock, P.D. (2013), New and existing combinations in Palaeotropical Phlegmariurus (Lycopodiaceae) and typification of the type species Phlegmariurus phlegmaria (L.) T.Sen & U.Sen. Phytokeys 20: 45 [basionym]

basionym of: Phlegmariurus phlegmarioides (Gaudich.) A.R.Field & Bostock legitimate

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): 8 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Rawak, Moluccas, Oct. 1822, C.-B.Gaudichaud s.n. (lecto, designated here: P 02141894!, isolecto: K 00695397*, FI 004229*)."

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): 8 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Phlegmariurus phlegmarioides (Gaudich.) A.R.Field & Bostock legitimate

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