BN: Dicranum purpureum Hedw.,

Sp. Musc. Frond.: 136, t. XXXVI, f. 1-11. 1801.

CN / SY: Ceratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid., Bryol. Univ. 1: 480. 1826.

PL: Locus terrestris, ad ligna putrescentia, per omnem Europam vulgatissima species, inque America septentrionali.

LI: Bryum tenue stellatum setis purpureis. Dill. Musc. 386. t. 49, f. 51. Mnium purpureum caule dichotomo, axillis pedunculiferis, anthera exerta, foliis carinatis. Linn. Spec. ed. II. 1575.6.

LT: BURLEY & PRITCHARD (1990: 37), lectotype in G [G0004 0077].

Figure: PRICE (2005: Fig. 71).

Notes: The original typification by BURLEY & PRITCHARD (1990) was inadvertently omitted in PRICE (2005).