Brackenridge, W.D. (1854), United States Exploring Expedition. Botany, Cryptogamia, Filices 16: 51 [tax. nov.]

Moore, T. (1857), Index Filicum 2: lxxviii [basionym]

basionym of: Pleopeltis maxima (Brack.) T.Moore legitimate

Hooker, W.J. (May 1864), Species Filicum 5(17): 83 [basionym]

basionym of: Polypodium maximum (Brack.) Hook. legitimate

Copeland, E.B. (1938), Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian ethnology and natural history 14: 39 [basionym]

basionym of: Microsorum maximum (Brack.) Copel. legitimate

Nooteboom, H.P. (1997), The Microsoroid ferns (Polypodiaceae). Blumea 42(2): 337 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "US Expl. Exp. 17 (K), Tahiti."

Bostock, P.D. & Spokes, T.M. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Polypodiaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 481 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Microsorum maximum (Brack.) Copel. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Microsorum maximum (Brack.) Copel. 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): 87-88 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Tahiti, s. dat., W.D.Brackenridge 17 (lecto: K 000804227*, isolecto: US 00134684!"

• Text: "Nooteboom (1997) cited the type of the name Drynaria maxima as ‘Type: US Expl. Exp. 17 (K), Tahiti’. This is here treated as effective lectotypification by Nooteboom, in accordance with ICN Art. 7.11 (Turland et al. 2018). Bostock and Spokes (1998b, p. 481) repeated Nooteboom’s citation of the specimen at K as the ‘holo’."

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): 87 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Microsorum maximum (Brack.) Copel. legitimate

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