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 Polypodium aspidioides var. tropica

Dryopteridaceae Herter

Polypodium aspidioides var. tropica F.M.Bailey

, legitimate

, scientific

Bailey, F.M. (1880), On Queensland ferns, with a description of two new species.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

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32

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Ranges, Trinity Bay, Queensland."

Bailey, F.M. (1881), The fern world of Australia

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85

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1883), A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora

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714

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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645

[secondary reference]

Domin, K. (October 1914), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

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44

[basionym]

basionym of:

Dryopteris tropica (F.M.Bailey) Domin

legitimate

Tindale, M.D. (1957), A preliminary revision of the genus Lastreopsis Ching.

The Victorian Naturalist

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184

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Lastreopsis rufescens (Blume) Ching

legitimate

Tindale, M.D. (30 March 1965), A monograph of the genus Lastreopsis.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium

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311

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Lastreopsis rufescens (Blume) Ching

legitimate

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

Flora of Australia

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415

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Lastreopsis rufescens (Blume) Ching

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Lastreopsis rufescens (Blume) Ching

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Parapolystichum rufescens (Blume) Labiak, Sundue & R.C.Moran

legitimate

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