Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Hypolepis elegans
Dennstaedtiaceae Lotsy
Hypolepis elegans Carruth. , legitimate, scientific
Seemann, B.C. (1873), Flora Vitiensis 10: 347 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "... Viti (Milne and M'Gillivray!). Also from Aneitum (M'Gillivray! n. 108) and Lord Howe's Island (M'Gillivray!)."
Brownsey, P.J. (1987), A review of the fern genus Hypolepis (Dennstaedtiaceae) in the Malesian and Pacific regions. Blumea 32(2): 263-267 [secondary reference]
Brownsey, P.J. & Chinnock, R.J. (13 March 1987), A taxonomic revision of the Australian species of Hypolepis. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 10(1): 19-21 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "J. MacGillivray 108, Aneiteum, New Hebrides, ii.1860 (BM, here chosen; isolectotype E)."
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]
Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Dennstaedtiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 46 [secondary reference]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 588 APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Hypolepis sp. legitimate pro parte misapplication: Hypolepis tenuifolia (G.Forst.) Bernh. ex C.Presl legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 726 pro parte misapplication: Davallia flaccida R.Br. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 714, 717 misapplication: Hypolepis tenuifolia (G.Forst.) Bernh. ex C.Presl legitimate by Oliver, W.R.B. (1917), The vegetation and flora of Lord Howe Island. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 49: 123
  • APC Comment: Infraspecific rank not recognised in NSW.
  • APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, LHI, Vic (presumed extinct)
Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Dennstaedtiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 46 [secondary reference]
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 33(1): 50 [secondary reference]
  • Type: "Aneiteum, New Hebrides, Feb. 1860, J.MacGillivray 108 (lecto: BM 001048154*; isolecto: E 00205308*,"