Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Cyathea felina

Cyatheaceae Kaulf.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Polypodiidae(subcl.)
Cyatheales(ordo)
Cyatheaceae(fam.)
Cyathea(gen.)
felina(sp.)

Cyathea felina (Roxb.) C.V.Morton

, legitimate

, scientific

Morton, C.V. (1974), William Roxburgh's fern types.

Contributions from the United States National Herbarium

:

344-345

BHL

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Polypodium felinum Roxb.

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

:

10

[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

:

10

[secondary reference]

Andrews, S.B. (1990), Ferns of Queensland

:

114

[secondary reference]

Bostock, P.D. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Cyatheaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

202, Fig. 64, Map 173

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Polypodium felinum Roxb.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Sphaeropteris felina (Roxb.) Pic.Serm.

legitimate

APC Dist.: Qld

Tindale, M.D. & Roy, S.K. (23 December 2002), A cytotaxonomic survey of the Pteridophyta of Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

853

[secondary reference]

Lehnert, M. & Cámara-Leret, R. (9 September 2019), New species of scaly tree ferns (Cyatheaceae) from New Guinea, and new combinations for the family for Malesia.

:

24 [online only]

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Sphaeropteris felina (Roxb.) Pic.Serm.

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

:

37

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Sphaeropteris felina (Roxb.) Pic.Serm.

legitimate

Brown, G.K. & Bostock, P.D. (December 2020), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2019 to 2020.

Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2020

:

7

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Sphaeropteris felina (Roxb.) Pic.Serm.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Polypodium felinum Roxb.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Sphaeropteris felina (Roxb.) Pic.Serm.

legitimate

APC Comment: Treated as Sphaeropteris felina in Qld.
APC Dist.: Qld