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 Pteridium aquilinum var. esculentum

Dennstaedtiaceae Lotsy

Pteridium aquilinum var. esculentum (G.Forst.) Kuhn

, legitimate

, scientific

Kuhn, F.A.M. (1882), Die Gruppe de Chaetopterides unter der Polypodiaceen.

Festschrift zu dem fünfzigjährigen Jubiläum der Königstädtischen Realschule zu Berlin

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27

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Pteris esculenta G.Forst.

legitimate

Bonaparte, R.N. (1917), Notes Pteridologiques 4

:

104

[secondary reference]

Tryon, R.M. (February 1941), A revision of the genus Pteridium (continued).

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61-63

[secondary reference]

Wakefield, N.A. (8 April 1942), Some fern and clubmoss notes.

The Victorian Naturalist

:

200

BHL

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pteris esculenta G.Forst.

legitimate

Page, C.N. (1976), The Taxonomy and Phytogeography of Bracken - a Review.

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

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16-17

[secondary reference]

Brownsey, P.J. (1989), The taxonomy of bracken (Pteridium: Dennstaedtiaceae) in Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

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117

[secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island.

Flora of Australia

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590

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Pteridium esculentum (G.Forst.) Cockayne

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Pteridium esculentum (G.Forst.) Cockayne

legitimate

Thomson, J.A. (16 August 2012), Taxonomic status of diploid southern hemisphere brackens (Pteridium: Dennstaedtiaceae).

:

45

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Pteridium esculentum (G.Forst.) Cockayne subsp. esculentum

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Pteridium esculentum (G.Forst.) Cockayne

legitimate