Hooker, W.J. in Nightingale, T. (1835), List of the ferns in the botanical collection made by Mr Nightingale in the Pacific isles. Oceanic Sketches: 131 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not cited.)

Bostock, P.D. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Thelypteridaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 329 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Society Islands, G.T.Nightingale; holo: K."

Bostock, P.D. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Thelypteridaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 329 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Macrothelypteris polypodioides (Hook.) Holttum 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): 67 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Society Islands, s. dat., G.T.Nightingale s.n. (lecto [mounted as two sheets]: K 000880397*"

• Text: "Bostock (1998d, p. 329) cited the type of the name Alsophila polypodioides as ‘Society Islands, G.T.Nightingale; holo: K’. This is here treated as effective lectotypification by Bostock, in accordance with ICN Art. 7.11 (Turland et al. 2018). Because Bostock’s citation meets the relevant requirements of ICN Art. 7.11, his use of the term ‘holo’ is correctable under ICN Art. 9.10."

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): 67 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Macrothelypteris polypodioides (Hook.) Holttum legitimate

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