Jones, D.L. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Appendix: Dryopteridaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 711 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Polystichum fragile Watts legitimate

Jones, D.L. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Dryopteridaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 401, Fig. 134, Map 364 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Revwattsia fragile D.L.Jones orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Polystichum fragile Watts legitimate

• APC Dist.: Qld

McKeown, M., Sundue, M.A. & Barrington, D.S. (2012), Phylogenetic analyses place the Australian monotypic Revwattsia in Dryopteris (Dryopteridaceae). Phytokeys 14: 53 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Dryopteris wattsii M.McKeown, Sundue & Barrington 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): 76 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Dryopteris wattsii M.McKeown, Sundue & Barrington legitimate

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