Forster, J.G.A. (1786), Florulae Insularum Australium Prodromus: 80 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ibidem. [="Noua Zeelandia."]

Hooker, J.D. (3 September 1858), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(7): 146 [secondary reference]

Hooker, W.J. & Baker, J.G. (1867), Synopsis Filicum Edn. 1, 5: 207 [basionym]

basionym of: Asplenium obtusatum var. lucidum (G.Forst.) Hook. & Baker legitimate

Moore, C. (1870), New South Wales - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 26 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 285 [secondary reference]

• Text: "A New Zealand plant, very similar to the above, but of thinner consistency, larger pinnules, very finely toothed, and with numerous very long and narrow sori, appears in some Tasmanian lists, apparently by mistake."

Domin, K. (October 1914), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 100 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Asplenium obtusatum var. lucidum (G.Forst.) Hook. & Baker legitimate

Brownsey, P.J. (1977), A taxonomic revision of the New Zealand species of Asplenium. New Zealand Journal of Botany 15: 51 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Lectotype in BM; coll. G. Forster (type locality given in "Prodromus" as New Zealand)"

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 593 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Asplenium milnei Carruth. legitimate by Moore, C. (1870), New South Wales - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 26

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Asplenium obtusatum G.Forst. legitimate by Hooker, J.D. (3 September 1858), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(7): 146

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