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): 106 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Ophioglossum japonicum Thunb. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1870), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 7(53): 84 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 962 [secondary reference]

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

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

Domin, K. (January 1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 210, Fig. 50 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (January 1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 208 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Lygodium flexuosum (L.) Sw. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 962

Holttum, R.E. (December 1959), Schizaeaceae. Flora Malesiana Series II 1(1): 51, Fig. 8 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Ophioglossum japonicum Thunb. isonym

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 217 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 3 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 25 [secondary reference]

Chinnock, R.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Lygodiaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 186-187, Fig. 59, Map 159 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Ophioglossum japonicum Thunb. legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT (doubtfully naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Chinnock, R.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Lygodiaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 186 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Lygodium flexuosum (L.) Sw. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 962

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

misapplied to: Lygodium flexuosum (L.) Sw. legitimate by 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): 106

Hosking, J.R., Conn, B.J., Lepschi, B.J. & Barker, C.H. (2011), Plant species first recognised as naturalised or naturalising for New South Wales in 2004 and 2005. Cunninghamia 12(1): 86-87 [secondary reference]

common name: Japanese Climbing Fern [n/a]

Mazumdar, J. & Ebihara, A. (2019), A review of the lycophyte and fern names treated as new in Carl Peter Thunberg’s Flora Japonica. Phytotaxa 406(2): 138 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "... C.P.Thunberg s.n. (UPS-THUNB No. 25222)."

nomenclatural synonym: Ophioglossum japonicum Thunb. isonym nomenclatural synonym: Ophioglossum japonicum Thunb. 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 33(1): 29 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Ophioglossum japonicum Thunb. legitimate

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