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 Polystichum fallax

Dryopteridaceae Herter

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Polypodiidae(subcl.)
Polypodiales(ordo)
Dryopteridaceae(fam.)
Polystichum(gen.)
fallax(sp.)

Polystichum fallax Tindale

, legitimate

, scientific

Tindale, M.D. (1955), Some notes on the genus Polystichum in south-eastern Australia.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

:

54, t. II.

BHL

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Moreton district, Mt. Mistake, Queensland, on slopes in open eucalypt forest with Themeda australis, in crevices of rocks, C.E. Hubbard No. 5196, 24.11.1930 (NSW. p6744; K.)."

Tindale, M.D. (1961), Aspidiaceae.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series

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53-54

[secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Dryopteridaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

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61

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of Australia

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405, Figs 86, 135D-E, Map 368

APC

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Dryopteridaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

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61

[secondary reference]

Tindale, M.D. & Roy, S.K. (23 December 2002), A cytotaxonomic survey of the Pteridophyta of Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

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858

[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

:

76

[secondary reference]

Type: "The Dome, Dorrigo, NSW, 26 Apr. 1944, M.Tindale s.n. (holo [mounted on three sheets]: NSW 463810*,NSW 463811*, NSW 463812*; iso: BM 001048780*)."