Underwood, L.M. (1907), American ferns — VIII. A preliminary review of the North American Gleicheniaceae. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 34: 250, adnot. [comb. nov.]

basionym: Polypodium lineare Burm.f. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Gleichenia linearis (Burm.f.) C.B.Clarke legitimate

Nakai, T. (1950), A new classification of Gleicheniales. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 29: 63-68 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Polypodium lineare Burm.f. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Gleichenia linearis (Burm.f.) C.B.Clarke 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: 175-176 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Polypodium lineare Burm.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gleichenia hermannii R.Br. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Dicranopteris hermannii (R.Br.) Nakai legitimate

Holttum, R.E. (December 1959), Gleicheniaceae. Flora Malesiana Series II 1(1): 33 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 48 [secondary reference]

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]

Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2: 104 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 26 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 1 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Gleicheniaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 38 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Gleicheniaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 30, Fig. 2D [secondary reference]

Chinnock, R.J. & Bell, G.H. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Gleicheniaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 160, Fig. 17 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Gleichenia linearis (Burm.f.) C.B.Clarke legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polypodium dichotomum Thunb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gleichenia hermanni R.Br. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Mertensia hermannii (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gleichenia dichotoma (Thunb.) Hook. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dicranopteris hermannii (R.Br.) Nakai legitimate misapplication: Polypodium lineare Burm.f. legitimate by Burman, N.L. (1768), Flora Indica: cui accedit series zoophytorum indicorum, nec non Prodromus Florae Capensis: 235

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4: 156 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Gleicheniaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 38 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Gleichenia hermanni R.Br. orth. var. orthographic variant: Dicranopteris hermanni Nakai orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Polypodium lineare Burm.f. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Gleichenia linearis (Burm.f.) C.B.Clarke legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polypodium dichotomum Thunb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gleichenia hermannii R.Br. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Mertensia hermannii (R.Br.) Poir. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gleichenia dichotoma (Thunb.) Hook. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dicranopteris hermannii (R.Br.) Nakai legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW, NI

Christenhusz, M.J.M. & Schneider, H. (2011), Corrections to Phytotaxa 19: Linear sequence of lycophytes and ferns. Phytotaxa 28: 50 [secondary reference]

Perrie, L.R. & Brownsey, P.J. (2015), Taxonomic notes on the New Zealand flora: lectotypes in the fern family Gleicheniaceae. New Zealand Journal of Botany 53(4): 186 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Gleichenia hermannii R.Br. nom. illeg.

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): 140 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Polypodium dichotomum Thunb. isonym nomenclatural synonym: Polypodium dichotomum Thunb. legitimate

Mazumdar, J., Callmander, M.W. & Fumeaux, N. (29 May 2019), Typification and nomenclature of the ferns described in N.L. Burman's Flora Indica. Candollea 74(1): 100 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Polypodium lineare Burm.f. 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): 26 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Polypodium lineare Burm.f. legitimate

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