Kaulfuss, G.F. (1827), Das Wesen der Farrenkräuter: 119 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Schizaea Sm., nom. cons.

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

• Etymology: "Greek skhizo, I cut; alluding to the contiguous segments of the fertile leaves."

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: 45 [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), Schizaeaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 46 [secondary reference]

Kramer, K.U. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1990), Schizaeaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 1: 258-263, Figs.131-133 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Schizaeaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 20 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Schizaeaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 31 [secondary reference]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Ferns and Allied Plants. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 41 [secondary reference]

Chinnock, R.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Schizaeaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 177 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1: 4 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Schizaeaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 20 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 231 [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: 777, 928 [secondary reference]

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

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, 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: 11 [secondary reference]

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