Linnaeus, C. (1763), Species Plantarum Edn. 2, 2: 1524 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in China. J. Fothergill."

Swartz, O. in Schrader, H.A. (ed.) (1801), Genera et species filicum ordine systematico redactarum adiectis synonymis et iconibus selectis, nec non speciebus recenter detectis, et demum plurimis dubiosis, ulterius investigandis. Journal für die Botanik 1800, 2(1, 2): 21 [basionym]

basionym of: Polypodium punctatum (L.) Sw. nom. illeg.

Copeland, E.B. (1929), The oriental genera of the Polypodiaceae. University of California Publications in Botany 16: 111 [basionym]

basionym of: Microsorum punctatum (L.) Copel. legitimate

Du Puy, D.J. (1993), Polypodiaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 547 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Microsorum punctatum (L.) Copel. legitimate

Bostock, P.D. & Spokes, T.M. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Polypodiaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 480 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Microsorum punctatum (L.) Copel. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Microsorum punctatum (L.) Copel. legitimate

Mazumdar, J. & Shalimov, A.P. (2016), Typifications of Linnaean names Equisetum palustre (Equisetaceae) and Acrostichum punctatum (Polypodiaceae). Turczaninowia 19(2): 88, Fig. 3 [secondary reference]

• Neotype: "(designated here): “China. Guangdong prov.: Tsingyun, on rocks by ravine. 9 June 1933, C. Wang 32560” (PE 00943781...)"

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): 88 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Microsorum punctatum (L.) Copel. legitimate

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