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 Polystichum formosum

Dryopteridaceae Herter

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Polypodiidae(subcl.)
Polypodiales(ordo)
Dryopteridaceae(fam.)
Polystichum(gen.)
formosum(sp.)

Polystichum formosum Tindale

, legitimate

, scientific

Tindale, M.D. (March 1954), Two new Australian species of Polystichum.

South Australian Naturalist

:

32-34

[tax. nov.]

Type: "The Dome, Dorrigo, N.S.W., ... M. Tindale, 26.4.1944 (N.S.W. P1986)."

Tindale, M.D. (1961), Aspidiaceae.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series

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54-55

[secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains

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73

[secondary reference]

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1

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39

[secondary reference]

vernacular name:

Broad Shield-fern

[n/a]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Dryopteridaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

61-62

[secondary reference]

common name:

Broad Shield Fern

[n/a]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Ferns and Allied Plants.

Flora of Victoria

:

94, Fig. 20d-e

[secondary reference]

common name:

Broad Shield-fern

[n/a]

Jones, D.L. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Appendix: Dryopteridaceae.

Flora of Australia

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405, Fig. 135F-G, Map 369

APC

[secondary reference]

common name:

Broad Shield Fern

[n/a]

APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, Vic

Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1

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9

[secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Dryopteridaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

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61-62

[secondary reference]

common name:

Broad Shield Fern

[n/a]

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

Australian Systematic Botany

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858

[secondary reference]

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