Martinov, I.I. (1820), Tekhno-Botanico Slovar: 438 [stat. nov.]

• Type: Ophioglossum L.

basionym: Ophioglosseae R.Br. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 41 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 40 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 43 [secondary reference]

Chinnock, R.J. & Henshall, T.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Pteridophyta. Flora of Central Australia: 6 [secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Ophioglossaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 46 [secondary reference]

Wagner, W.H. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1990), Ophioglossaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 1: 193-197, Fig. 102 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Ophioglossaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 17 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Ophioglossaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 27 [secondary reference]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Ferns and Allied Plants. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 30 [secondary reference]

Chinnock, R.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Ophioglossaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 99 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Ophioglossaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 17 [secondary reference]

Tindale, M.D. & Roy, S.K. (23 December 2002), A cytotaxonomic survey of the Pteridophyta of Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 15(6): 845 [secondary reference]

Smith, A.R., Pryer, K.M., Schuettpelz, E., Korall, P., Schneider, H. & Wolf, P.G. (August 2006), A classification for extant ferns. Taxon 55(3): 709 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Helminthostachyaceae Ching legitimate

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 603, 928 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Botrychiaceae Horan. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Ophioglosseae Martinov orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Ophioglosseae R.Br. legitimate isonym: Ophioglossaceae C.Agardh isonym

• APC Dist.: WA, ChI, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, LHI, NI, ACT, Vic, Tas

Christenhusz, M.J.M., Zhang, X.C. & Schneider, H. (2011), A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns. Phytotaxa 19: 10 [secondary reference]

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