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 Marattia howeana

Marattiaceae Kaulf.

Marattia howeana (W.R.B.Oliv.) P.S.Green

, legitimate

, scientific

Green, P.S. (1988), Notes relating to Australian ferns, especially from Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands.

:

655-656

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Marattia fraxinea var. howeana W.R.B.Oliv.

legitimate

common name:

King Fern

[n/a]

common name:

Horse Shoe Fern

[n/a]

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

Flora of Australia

:

556, Fig. 101C-D

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Marattia fraxinea var. howeana W.R.B.Oliv.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Marattia salicina subsp. nov.

legitimate

misapplication: Marattia salicina Sm. legitimate by

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1877), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 10(87)

: 118 misapplication: Marattia fraxinea Sm. legitimate by

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7

: 695 misapplication: Marattia fraxinea Sm. legitimate by

Hemsley, W.B. (1896), The Flora of Lord Howe Island.

Annals of Botany

10(2)

: 267

common name:

King Fern

[n/a]

common name:

Horse Shoe Fern

[n/a]

Camus, J.M. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Marattiaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

112

[secondary reference]

Murdock, A.G. (2008), A taxonomic revision of the eusporangiate fern family Marattiaceae, with description of a new genus Ptisana.

:

749

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ptisana howeana (W.R.B.Oliv.) Murdock

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Marattia fraxinea var. howeana W.R.B.Oliv.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Ptisana howeana (W.R.B.Oliv.) Murdock

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Marattia salicina subsp. nov.

legitimate

misapplication: Marattia salicina Sm. legitimate by

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1877), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 10(87)

: 118 misapplication: Marattia fraxinea Sm. legitimate by

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7

: 695 misapplication: Marattia fraxinea Sm. legitimate by

Hemsley, W.B. (1896), The Flora of Lord Howe Island.

Annals of Botany

10(2)

: 267

APC Dist.: LHI

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ptisana howeana (W.R.B.Oliv.) Murdock

legitimate

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

:

17

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ptisana howeana (W.R.B.Oliv.) Murdock

legitimate