Roemer, M.J. (1840), Handbuch der Allgemeinen Botanik: zum Selbststudium auf der Grundlage des des natürlichen Systems 3: 520 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Lygodium Sw.

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Lygodiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 32 [secondary reference]

Chinnock, R.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Lygodiaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 183 [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): 711 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 507, 928 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Comment: Qld does not recognise Lygodiaceae and places Lygodium in Schizaeaceae.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised)

Christenhusz, M.J.M., Zhang, X.C. & Schneider, H. (2011), A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns. Phytotaxa 19: 11 [secondary reference]

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): 28 [secondary reference]

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