Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Polypodium altescandens
Polypodiaceae Bercht. & J.Presl
Polypodium altescandens Colla , legitimate, scientific
Colla, L.A. in Colla, L.A. (ed.) (1836), Herbarium Pedemontanum 6: 228 [tax. nov.]
Baker, J.G. in Hooker, W.J. & Baker, J.G. (1867), Synopsis Filicum Edn. 1, 7: 301 [basionym]
basionym of: Nephrolepis altescandens (Colla) Baker legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: Listed as the basionym of Nephrolepis altescandens (Colla) Baker by A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 2073 (1991), and erroneously as the ‘basionym’ of Nephrodium altescandens A.D.Chapm., nom. inval., by A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 2075 (1991). Nephrolepis altescandens (Colla) Baker is considered to have been misapplied to Arthropteris palisotii (Desv.) Alston in Australia.