Allen, B. Moss flora of Central America. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Part 1 (1994): Sphagnaceae – Calymperaceae. Part 2 (2002): Encalyptaceae - Orthotrichaceae. Part 3 (2010): Anomodontaceae - Symphyodontaceae. Part 4 (not published yet).
Bartram, E.B. (1949). Mosses of Guatemala. Fieldiana: Botany 25. Chicago Natural History Museum. [A useful book for all parts of tropical America, well-written and easy to use, with good keys, descriptions and illustrations although the nomenclature is somewhat outdated.]
- Online version: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19737#page/7/mode/1up
Buck, B.W. (1998). Pleurocarpous mosses of the West Indies. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 82.
Churchill, S.P., Linares C. 1995. Prodromus Bryologiae Novo-Granatensis. Introduccion a la Flora de Musgos de Colombia. Biblioteca José Jerónimo Triana. 12: 1-924. (Parte 1: 1-453, Parte 2: 454-924).
Churchill, S.P. (1994). The Mosses of Amazonian Ecuador. AAU Reports 35: 1-211.
Florschütz, P.A. Flora of Suriname. Part 1 (1964) [Includes most of the acrocarpous mosses likely to be met with in the lowlands of the Guianas and Amazonia.]
Part 2. (1986). [Continuation of Florschütz (1964). Includes three families of pleurocarps, including Hookeriaceae.]. MJ Jansen-Jacobs (ed.) (2011). Flora of the Guianas, Series C: 2: Bryophytes: Musci IV. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [This is the final instalment on the moss flora of the Guianas, and is a compilation of preceding publications on the subject with addition of the remaining untreated moss groups.]
Fulford, M.H. (1962–1976). Manual of the leafy Hepaticae of Latin America. Parts 1–4. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden.
Gradstein, S.R. (1989). A key to the Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The Bryologist 92(3): 329-348. [A key emphasising vegetative characters for 237 species in 92 genera of liverworts and hornworts recorded from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands; also useful for other parts of tropical America.]
Gradstein, S.R.; Churchill, S.P., Allen, N.S. (2002) Guide to the Bryophytes of Tropical America. New York Botanical Garden Press, 86. [Descriptions, illustrations, and keys to the 597 genera of bryophytes recorded from tropical America].
Gradstein, S. R. (2003). The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of Brazil. New York Botanical Garden Press.
Griffin, D. and Morales, M.I. (1983). Keys to the genera of mosses from Costa Rica. Brenesia 21: 299-323. [Useful key to genera of Central America - over 200 genera are dealt with.]