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 Notholaena fragilis

Pteridaceae E.D.M.Kirchn.

Notholaena fragilis Hook.

, legitimate

, scientific

Hooker, W.J. (1864), Species Filicum 5(18-20)

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114, t. CCLXXXVII A.

[tax. nov.]

Type: Fitzmaurice river, N. Australia, rare, F. Mueller.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1866), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 5(36)

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123

[replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of:

Cheilanthes fragillima F.Muell.

legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1874), Handbook to the Ferns of Queensland

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37, Fig. 29

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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648

[secondary reference]

Domin, K. (January 1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

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135

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Cheilanthes fragilis Hook.

legitimate

Tindale, M.D. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (1958), The Pteridophyta of Arnhem Land.

Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology

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177

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Cheilanthes fragillima F.Muell.

legitimate

Quirk, H.M., Chambers, T.C. & Regan, M. (1983), The fern genus Cheilanthes in Australia.

Australian Journal of Botany

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523

[secondary reference]

Type: Oct. 1855 (MEL 503529).

Quirk, H.M., Chambers, T.C. & Regan, M. (1983), The fern genus Cheilanthes in Australia.

Australian Journal of Botany

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523

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Cheilanthes fragillima F.Muell.

legitimate

Chambers, T.C. & Farrant, P.A. (27 September 1991), A re-examination of the genus Cheilanthes (Adiantaceae) in Australia.

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539

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "NORTHERN TERRITORY: Fitzmaurice River, F.Mueller, Oct 1855 (MEL 503529).",

Chambers, T.C. & Farrant, P.A. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Cheilanthes.

Flora of Australia

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279

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Cheilanthes fragillima F.Muell.

legitimate

Short, P., Dixon, D. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2003), A review of the ferns and fern allies of the Northern Territory.

The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory

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48

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Cheilanthes fragillima F.Muell.

legitimate

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

:

-

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Nothochlaena fragilis Hook.

orth. var.

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

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Cheilanthes fragillima F.Muell.

legitimate

Christenhusz, M.J.M., Fay, M.F. & Byng, J.W. (9 February 2018), GLOVAP Nomenclature Part 1.

The Global Flora: a practical flora to vascular plant species of the world

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14

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Hemionitis fragillima (F.Muell.) Christenh.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Cheilanthes fragillima F.Muell.

legitimate