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 fragile

Dryopteridaceae Herter

Polystichum fragile Watts

, legitimate

, scientific

Watts, W.W. (26 February 1915), Some notes on the ferns of north Queensland.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

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775, t. lxxxviii, fig. 9A–G.

[tax. nov.]

Type: "This handsome fern was collected in a "Falling" on Major's homestead, near Ravenshoe (Watts, Aug., 1913)."

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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10

[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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10

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of Australia

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711

[basionym]

basionym of:

Revwattsia fragilis (Watts) D.L.Jones

legitimate

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

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-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Revwattsia fragilis (Watts) D.L.Jones

legitimate

McKeown, M., Sundue, M.A. & Barrington, D.S. (2012), Phylogenetic analyses place the Australian monotypic Revwattsia in Dryopteris (Dryopteridaceae).

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53

[replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of:

Dryopteris wattsii M.McKeown, Sundue & Barrington

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

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76

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "Majors Homestead, near Ravenshoe, Queensland, Aug. 1913, W. W.Watts s.n. (lecto, designated here: NSW 665517*; isolecto: BM 001048777*, MEL 2274018*)."

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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76

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Dryopteris wattsii M.McKeown, Sundue & Barrington

legitimate