Dryander, J.C. (1793), Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences (Turin): 413, t. 9, fig. 4 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Lindsaea dryandri Smith

Labillardière, J.J.H. de (1807), Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen 2(25-26): 98 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1874), Handbook to the Ferns of Queensland: 18 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Name in honor of Mr. Lindsey, a writer on mosses."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 137 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Schizoloma Gaudich. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Isoloma J.Sm. legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 285 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 641 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 36 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After John Lindsay, a surgeon in Jamaica."

Britton, N.L. & Wilson, Percy (15 June 1926), Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands 6(3): 488 [secondary reference]

• Type: Lindsaea guianense Aubl.

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 35 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After John Lindsay, a surgeon in Jamaica"

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: 172, 176 [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: 60-61 [secondary reference]

Kramer, K.U. (1970), The Lindseaoid ferns of the Old World. V. The smaller Pacific Islands. Blumea 18(1/2): 157-194 [secondary reference]

Kramer, K.U. (April 1971), Lindsaea-Group. Flora Malesiana Series II 1(3): 198 [secondary reference]

Kramer, K.U. & Tindale, M.D. (17 September 1976), The Lindsaeoid ferns of the old world VII. Australia and New Zealand. Telopea 1(2): 93 [secondary reference]

Chinnock, R.J. & Henshall, T.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Pteridophyta. Flora of Central Australia: 11 [secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Lindsaeaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 52 [secondary reference]

Kramer, K.U. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1990), Dennstaedtiaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 1: 92-93, Fig. 40 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Lindsaeaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 48 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 386 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Schizolegnia Alston nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Dennstaedtiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 44-45 [secondary reference]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Ferns and Allied Plants. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 83 [secondary reference]

Kramer, K.U. & McCarthy, P.M. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Lindsaeaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 228 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Schizoloma Gaudich. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Odontoloma J.Sm. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Schizolegnia Alston nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Lindsaea. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 48 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 229 [secondary reference]

Short, P., Dixon, D. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2003), A review of the ferns and fern allies of the Northern Territory. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 19(3): 36 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Linsaea Sw. orth. var. orthographic variant: Lindsaya Kaulf. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Schizoloma Gaudich. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Odontoloma J.Sm. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Schizolegnia Alston nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

Christenhusz, M.J.M., Zhang, X.C. & Schneider, H. (2011), A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns. Phytotaxa 19: 13 [secondary reference]

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): 37 [secondary reference]

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