Swartz, O. (1806), Synopsis Filicum: 109, 302 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in India orientali. Rottler."

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 153 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1874), Handbook to the Ferns of Queensland: 17, Fig. 11 [secondary reference]

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

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 282 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 640 [secondary reference]

common name: Tape Fern [n/a]

Domin, K. (January 1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 163-164 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1987), Native Plants of Queensland 3: 314 [secondary reference]

common name: Tape Fern [n/a]

Andrews, S.B. (1990), Ferns of Queensland: 379 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Vittariaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 28 [secondary reference]

Pichi Sermolli, R.E.G. (1991), The pteridological collections of the G.R.S.T.S. Expedition to the coastal region of north-eastern Queensland. Webbia; raccolta di scritti botanici 45(2): 338 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. (1993), Vittariaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 543 [secondary reference]

common name: Tape Fern [n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 567 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Vittaria rigida Kaulf. legitimate by Endlicher, S.F.L. (1833), Prodromus Florae Norfolkicae: 12 common name: Tape Fern [n/a]

Crane, E.H. (1997), A revised circumscription of the genera of the fern family Vittariaceae. Systematic Botany 22(3): 514 [basionym]

basionym of: Haplopteris elongata (Sw.) E.H.Crane legitimate

Jones, D.L. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Vittariaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 293, Fig. 107, Map 269 [secondary reference]

common name: Tape Fern [n/a]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Vittariaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 28 [secondary reference]

Tindale, M.D. & Roy, S.K. (23 December 2002), A cytotaxonomic survey of the Pteridophyta of Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 15(6): 850 [secondary reference]

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

misapplication: Vittaria rigida Kaulf. legitimate by Endlicher, S.F.L. (1833), Prodromus Florae Norfolkicae: 12

• APC Dist.: ChI, Qld, NSW, NI

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Haplopteris elongata (Sw.) E.H.Crane legitimate

Brown, G.K. & Bostock, P.D. (December 2019), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2018 to 2019. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2019: 6 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Haplopteris elongata (Sw.) E.H.Crane 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): 45 [secondary reference]

• Type: "India orient., s. dat., J.P.Rottler s.n. (possible holo: S S-P- 5129*)."

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): 45 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Haplopteris elongata (Sw.) E.H.Crane legitimate

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