Smith, J.E. (1793), Tentamen botanicum de filicum generibus dorsiferarum. Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences (Turin) 5: 415 [tax. nov.]

• Type: ***

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 323 [basionym]

basionym of: Humata pectinata (Sm.) Desv. legitimate

Presl, C.B. [K.B.] (1851), Epimeliae Botanicae: 98 [basionym]

basionym of: Pachypleuria pectinata (Sm.) C.Presl legitimate

Nooteboom, H.P. (1994), Notes on Davalliaceae II. A revision of the genus Davallia. Blumea 39(1/2): 189 [secondary reference]

• Type: "D. Hurloch 1786 (n.v.), India Orientalis."

taxonomic synonym: Humata pectinata (Sm.) Desv. legitimate

Bell, G.H. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Davalliaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 440, Map 411 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Humata pectinata (Sm.) Desv. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Humata pectinata (Sm.) Desv. 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 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Humata pectinata (Sm.) Desv. 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): 81 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Indiae Orientalis, 1786, D.Hurloch s.n. [Societas Unitas Fratrum] (lecto, designated here: LINN 1635.19-2* [no. 2, mounted on a mixed sheet])"

• Text: "Nooteboom (1994, p. 189) cited the type of this name as ‘D. Hurloch 1786 (n.v.), India Orientalis’, but did not specify the herbarium in which this specimen is lodged. This does not constitute effective lectotypification in accordance with ICN Art. 7.11 (Turland et al. 2018)."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Humata pectinata (Sm.) Desv. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Pachypleuria pectinata (Sm.) C.Presl legitimate

• APC Dist.: Qld

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