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 scandens L. legitimate

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

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 691 [secondary reference]

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

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 282 [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 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Ophioglossum scandens L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Hydroglossum scandens (L.) Willd. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lygodium microphyllum (Cav.) R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lygodium scandens var. microphyllum (Cav.) Luerss. legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 3 [secondary reference]

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: 174 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Ophioglossum scandens L. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Lygodium flexuosum (L.) Sw. legitimate

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