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 Polypodium capense

Polypodiaceae Bercht. & J.Presl

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Polypodiidae(subcl.)
Polypodiales(ordo)
Polypodiaceae(fam.)
capense(sp.)

Polypodium capense L.f.

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. [filius] (April 1782), Supplementum Plantarum

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445-446

BHL

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat ad Cap. bonae spei. Sparrmann."

Swartz, O. in Schrader, H.A. (ed.) (1801), Genera et species filicum ordine systematico redactarum adiectis synonymis et iconibus selectis, nec non speciebus recenter detectis, et demum plurimis dubiosis, ulterius investigandis.

Journal für die Botanik

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42

[basionym]

basionym of:

Aspidium capense (L.f.) Sw.

legitimate

Willdenow, C.L. (January 1810), Species Plantarum Edn. 4, 5(1)

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267

BHL

[basionym]

basionym of:

Aspidium capense (L.f.) Willd.

isonym

Smith, J. in Hooker, W.J. (1842), An arrangement and definition of the genera of ferns, with observations on the affinities of each genus.

London Journal of Botany

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666

[basionym]

basionym of:

Alsophila capensis (L.f.) J.Sm.

legitimate

Smith, J. (1846), An enumeration of ferns cultivated in the Royal Gardens at Kew, in December 1845; with characters and observations on some of the genera and species.

Curtis's Botanical Magazine

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35

BHL

[basionym]

basionym of:

Polystichum capense (L.f.) Sm.

legitimate

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

:

758

BHL

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Aspidium capense (L.f.) Sw.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census

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- APC

[secondary reference]

APC Comment: Basionym of Aspidium capense (L.f.) Willd., which is a later isonym of Aspidium capense (L.f.) Sw. The latter name has been misapplied to Lastreopsis calantha (Endl.) Tindale and Polystichum whiteleggei Watts on NI and LHI respectively.