Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Dryopteris cycadina
Dryopteridaceae Herter
Dryopteris cycadina (Franch. & Sav.) C.Chr. , legitimate, scientific
Christensen, C.F.A. in Christensen, C.F.A. (ed.) (1905), Index Filicum: 260 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Aspidium cycadinum Franch. & Sav. legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Aspidium cycadinum Franch. & Sav. legitimate
  • APC Comment: The name Dryopteris atrata (Kunze) Ching seems to have been widely misapplied to this taxon in horticulture (see Fraser-Jenkins, Bull. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bot. 18: 323-477 (1989)). D. cycadina is a triploid apomict.
  • APC Dist.: Vic (doubtfully naturalised)