Willdenow, C.L. (January 1810), Species Plantarum Edn. 4, 5(1): 221 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in America calidiore"

Lowe, E.J. (1857), Ferns: British and Exotic ... London 6: pl. xi [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Lastrea acuminata Houlston legitimate

• Comment: Cited by D.L.Jones in P.M.McCarthy (ed.), Fl. Australia 48: 407 (1998), as "Aspidium acuminatum E.J.Lowe... nom. illeg. non Willd.". However, Lowe clearly refers to Willdenow and this usage is thus treated here as a secondary reference to Willdenow's taxon name.

Bailey, F.M. in Meston, A. (ed.) (1889), Botany of the Bellenden-Ker Expedition. Report of the Government Scientific Expedition to the Bellenden-Ker Range upon the Flora and Fauna of that part of the Colony: 78 [secondary reference]

Watts, W.W. (13 September 1916), Some cryptogamic notes from the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41(2): 382 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Dryopteris acuminata (Houlston) Watts legitimate by Lowe, E.J. (1857), Ferns: British and Exotic ... London 6: pl. xi

Christensen, C.F.A. (1944), A new combination in Dryopteris. The Victorian Naturalist 60: 155 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Dryopteris shepherdii (Kunze ex Mett.) C.Chr. legitimate by Lowe, E.J. (1857), Ferns: British and Exotic ... London 6: pl. xi

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