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common name: Lady Fern [n/a]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 39 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Polystichum aculeatum (L.) Roth legitimate

Ewart, A.J. (1931), Flora of Victoria: 55 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Polystichum aculeatum (L.) Roth legitimate

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 38 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Polystichum aculeatum (L.) Roth legitimate

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 604 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Polystichum whiteleggei Watts legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(75): 78

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