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The current name for this species in some international databases is given as Pohlia humilis (Mont.) Broth (1903). The similarity of the two taxa was noted by Montagne in 1845 in the protologue of Bryum humilis Mont., and Wilson (1854, in Flora Novae-Zelandiae) also considered this species to be closely allied or possibly identical wtih B. humilis. As the publication in 1844 of Bryum tenuifolium, on which Pohlia tenuifolia is based, was illegitimate, Pohlia humilis would have precedence if the two are conspecific. Suarez & Schiavone [Darwinia n.s. 1(1): 61-66 (2013)] accept the New Zealand species as P. humilis, and Suarez proposed conserving the name of P. humilis as P. tenuifolia [Taxon 60(2): 591 (2011), but it was rejected. Allan Fife (2020) retained P. tenuifolia, not having seen material of P. humilis for comparison.