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 Microsorum membranifolium

Polypodiaceae J.Presl & C.Presl

Microsorum membranifolium (R.Br.) Ching

, legitimate

, scientific

Ching, R.C. (1941), Bulletin of the Fan Memorial Institute of Biology; Botany 10

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239

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Polypodium membranifolium R.Br.

legitimate

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1

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12

[secondary reference]

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

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12

[secondary reference]

Nooteboom, H.P. (1997), The Microsoroid ferns (Polypodiaceae).

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339, plates 4, 11, 13

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "Banks (BM), Australia, East Coast."

Bostock, P.D. & Spokes, T.M. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Polypodiaceae.

Flora of Australia

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484, Map 459

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Polypodium membranifolium R.Br.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Polypodium nigrescens Blume

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Polypodium membranifolium var. subsimplex Domin

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Microsorum nigrescens (Blume) Copel.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Phymatosorus nigrescens Pic.Serm.

legitimate

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

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Polypodium membranifolium R.Br.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Polypodium scandens var. membranifolium (R.Br.) F.Muell.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Polypodium membranifolium R.Br. var. membranifolium

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Phymatosorus membranifolium (R.Br.) S.G.Lu

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Phymatosorus membranifolius (R.Br.) Tindale

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

taxonomic synonym:

Polypodium nigrescens Blume

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Polypodium membranifolium var. subsimplex Domin

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Microsorum nigrescens (Blume) Copel.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Phymatosorus nigrescens Pic.Serm.

legitimate

APC Dist.: Qld

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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88

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Polypodium membranifolium R.Br.

legitimate