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 Microlepia

Dennstaedtiaceae Lotsy

Microlepia C.Presl

, nom. cons.

, scientific

Presl, C.B. [K.B.] (1836), Tentamen Pteridographiae

:

124, t. IV, figs 21-23

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Bailey, F.M. (1874), Handbook to the Ferns of Queensland

:

52

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "Derived from mikros, small, and lepis, a scale."

Smith, J. (1875), Historia Filicum

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260

[secondary reference]

Type: Microlepia polypodioides (Sw.) C.Presl

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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137

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate

Baker, J.G. (April 1891), A summary of the new ferns which have been discovered or described since 1874.

Annals of Botany

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202

[basionym]

basionym of:

Davallia subg. Microlepia (C.Presl) Baker

legitimate

Kramer, K.U. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1990), Dennstaedtiaceae.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

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84-85, Fig. 35

[secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. (1993), Dennstaedtiaceae.

Flora of Australia

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553-554

[secondary reference]

Brownsey, P.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Dennstaedtiaceae.

Flora of Australia

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216

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Scypholepia J.Sm.

legitimate

APC Dist.: ChI, WA, NT, Qld

Short, P., Dixon, D. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2003), A review of the ferns and fern allies of the Northern Territory.

The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory

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36

[secondary reference]

Smith, A.R., Pryer, K.M., Schuettpelz, E., Korall, P., Schneider, H. & Wolf, P.G. (August 2006), A classification for extant ferns.

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714

[secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

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545

[secondary reference]

Christenhusz, M.J.M., Zhang, X.C. & Schneider, H. (2011), A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns.

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13

[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

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50

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Davallia subg. Microlepia (C.Presl) Baker

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Scypholepia J.Sm.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, ChI, NT, Qld