Hooker, W.J. (March 1844), Species Filicum 1(1): 6, t. VI(B) [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Hab. Northern Island, N. Zealand, A. Cunningham, Colenso, Edgerley, Dieffenbach."

taxonomic synonym: Gleichenia arachnoidea Hook. nom. inval., pro syn.

Ching, R.C. (1940), On the genus Gleichenia Sm. Sunyatsenia 5: 283 [basionym]

basionym of: Sticherus cunninghamii (Heward ex Hook.) Ching legitimate

St.John, H. (1942), New combinations in the Gleicheniaceae and in Styphelia (Epacridaceae): Pacific Plant Studies 1. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian ethnology and natural history 17(7): 81 [basionym]

basionym of: Sticherus cunninghamii (Heward ex Hook.) H.St.John isonym

Nakai, T. (1950), A new classification of Gleicheniales. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 29: 15 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Sticherus cunninghamii (Heward ex Hook.) Ching legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Gleichenia cunninghami Hook. orth. var.

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Sticherus cunninghamii (Heward ex Hook.) Ching legitimate

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