Baker, J.G. (27 July 1867), The cultivated Selaginellas. The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette 1867: 783 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Lycopodium willdenowii Desv. ex Poir. legitimate

Baker, J.G. (14 September 1867), The cultivated Selaginellas (continued). The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette 1867: 950 [secondary reference]

Jermy, A.C. & Holmes, J.S. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Selaginellaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 87 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised)

• Text: "... a species from SE Asia to the Sunda Is., often grown for the metallic hue of its leaves, is established near Kuranda, north-eastern Qld (July 1938, D.A.Goy, BRI)..."

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): 13 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Selaginella willdenovii Baker orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Lycopodium willdenowii Desv. ex Poir. legitimate

• APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised)

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