Following Galloway D.J. unpulbished checklist 2001: Leptogium aucklandicaum Zahlbr. = Leptogium azureum auct. non. (S.) Mont.
Following Galloway, D.J. 1985 under Leptogium azuereum (Sw.) Mont.: in early reports of New Zealand lichens it was referred to as L. tremelloides