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 1800, 2(1, 2): 7, 106 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Lygodium scandens (L.) Sw.

• Comment: nom. cons. (ref. I.C.B.N. (1988) 158).

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 162 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1874), Handbook to the Ferns of Queensland: 61 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Lygodes, flexible."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 136 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hydroglossum Willd. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 638 [secondary reference]

common name: Snake's-tongue Fern [n/a]

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: 172, 174 [secondary reference]

Voss, E.G. (1983), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Sydney, 1981. Regnum Vegetabile 111: 310 [secondary reference]

Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawkesworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988. Regnum Vegetabile 118: 158 [secondary reference]

Kramer, K.U. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1990), Schizaeaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 1: 260, Fig. 132A-B [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Schizaeaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 21-22 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 214 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hydroglossum Willd. legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Lygodiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 32 [secondary reference]

Chinnock, R.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Lygodiaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 184-197 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Schizaeaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 21-22 [secondary reference]

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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 19(3): 32 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Ugena Cav. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Hydroglossum Willd. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised)

Smith, A.R., Pryer, K.M., Schuettpelz, E., Korall, P., Schneider, H. & Wolf, P.G. (August 2006), A classification for extant ferns. Taxon 55(3): 711 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 507 [secondary reference]

Christenhusz, M.J.M., Zhang, X.C. & Schneider, H. (2011), A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns. Phytotaxa 19: 11 [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 33(1): 29 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Ugena Cav. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Hydroglossum Willd. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lygodium subg. Eulygodium Hook. nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Lygodium sect. Eulygodium Alderw. nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Lygodium subg. Eulygodium C.F.Reed nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised)

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